President Maduro of Venezuela appears to be planning to seize a region of neighboring Guyana in order to extract oil and gas there.

This territorial dispute is not new. 20 years ago, maps of Venezuela made by the state showed that region as a part of Venezuela. What is new is the intent to seize it by force. Chávez never showed any sign of doing that; indeed, the UN was considering the issue of which country that region should be part of.

As in any dispute between countries about which one(s) will get to extract how much of the fossil fuels in a given region, the right answer is "Nobody will extract it! Leave it in the ground!"