Question

In December 2023, this country extradited defense contractor “Fat Leonard” to the U.S. as part of a prisoner exchange deal for jailed businessman Alex Saab. This country’s attorney general Tarek William Saab accused several opposition figures of sabotaging a referendum in which voters agreed to reject the Paris Arbitral Award in favor of the Geneva Agreement. Ralph Gonsalves brokered talks in which this country’s leader and (*) Irfaan Ali agreed to settle a boundary dispute in international courts; that dispute over a region east of the Schomburgk Line has been criticized by this country’s former presidential claimant Juan (10[1])Guaidó. For 10 points, name this Latin American country that has contested its eastern neighbor’s control over (10[1])the Essequibo region under Nicolás Maduro. ■END■

ANSWER: Venezuela [or Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela; or República Bolivariana de Venezuela]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Collin NadarajahWUSTL CWUSTL J9710
Logan MathisSIUESquidward Community College11410

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2024 Booster Shot (Columbia)02/23/2024Y6100%17%33%97.67
2024 Booster Shot (Waterloo)02/23/2024Y4100%50%25%82.25
2024 Booster Shot (Vanderbilt)03/02/2024Y4100%0%0%108.00
2024 Booster Shot (Great Lakes)03/09/2024Y6100%17%0%90.33
2024 Booster Shot (WUSTL)03/09/2024Y2100%0%0%105.50