The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Kamla Persad-Bissessar - VENEZUELA’S efforts to claim Guyana’s Essequibo region as its own are starting to ramp up, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says, in an exhausted strategic move ahead of Venezuela's national elections, due next year. Persad-Bissessar, speaking at a UNC cottage meeting on Monday, said she believes the ongoing crisis has been “created by Maduro (to) whip up nationalism under the false pretext that the international community is mistreating […]