Special Envoy to Mabaruma, Essequibo Region, Guyana
The track reduces to a narrow path of planks thrown on the soggy ground to the edge of a small river.
Canoes are pulled onto the bank.
Under plank shelters, residents take a nap in hammocks.
A woman crosses the river with her baby on her hip.
“Venezuela is over there
,” says a young man without looking up from his cell phone.
Just before the border, there is the Guyanese military post, with a few soldiers supplied by canoe.”
The White Creek River, which wends its way through the trees, is one of the few lines of communication between Guyana and neighboring Venezuela.
The northern Essequibo region is a vast expanse of flooded forests and mangroves.
No roads connect the region's few small towns, Mabaruma or Port Kaituma, to Georgetown, Guyana's capital.
No bridge crosses the Essequibo River and its immense delta.
The connections are made by small…
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