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Guyana: Everything You Need to Know

Since independence Guyana has been dysfunctional and neglected, the product of the colonial powers transporting hundreds of thousands of people from Asia and Africa to grow sugar for them. That might be about to change. In 2015, Exxonmobil announced that it had struck oil off the coast of Guyana. Since then, Exxon has found an average of 1.7 billion barrels per year, one of the biggest oil strikes in history, in a country of only 800,000 people. As of 2023, Guyana’s economy is three times larger than it was only three years ago and Guyana has more barrels of oil per person than any other country in the world. This video is about everything you need to know to understand Guyana, today. Books John Gimlette, Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge, 2011 John Hemming, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, 2008 Charles C. Mann, 1491: The Americas Before Columbus, 2005 Charles C. Mann, 1493: How the Ecological Collision of Europe and the Americas Gave Rise to the Modern World, 2011 McNeill, J. R, Mosquito Empires; Ecology and War in the Greater Carribbean, 2010 English colonies in Guiana and on the Amazon, 1604-1668, James A. Williamson, 1923 00:00 Intro 01:13 Recap 02:45 Overview of Guyana 08:10 Georgetown 14:28 Modern Guyana 20:00 The Oil Question 25:50 Annai to Lethem 28:20 Reflections on Guyana 32:15 Next Series...