One of the attractions of history and its enigmatic lessons consists in the fact, that, from age to age, nothing changes much, yet everything is different. On August 18, 1962, the Venezuelan Government requested the inclusion on the Agenda of the Seventeenth Session of the United Nations General Assembly of the item, “Question of boundaries between Venezuela and the territory of British Guyana”. Historians and international lawyers had presumed that this particular international dispute had long been settled and become a memory faded, though still fragrant, in international law case and textbooks.