Venezuela's president on Tuesday published a new map of the region showing two thirds of neighboring Guyana 'reclaimed' by Caracas and ordered the state-owned energy companies to 'immediately' begin exploration in the area, as fears rose that Nicolas Maduro could start a war.Venezuela - ever since the border of the present-day country was drawn up, in 1899. But on Sunday, with his own popularity falling in the face of a newly-unified opposition, Maduro organized a 'referendum' on whether to pursue Venezuela's claim to the territory.Voters were asked if they agreed with creating a Venezuelan state in the Esequiba region, providing its population with Venezuelan citizenship, and 'incorporating that state into the map of Venezuelan territory.'
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