All right, Alexander, let's talk about the crisis that is developing in Guyana, close to Venezuela.

And it is a border dispute, I guess, is one way that you can describe this, perhaps a possible, well, a referendum.

And the fear is that we could have Venezuela possibly

making moves towards a part of Guyana, a part that is divided by the river,

Esa Kiba river.

And this is a, yeah, this is a dispute

that is starting to pick up pace.

And, of course, there's oil involved as well.

A lot of oil right off the coast of Guyana. And I think it was, I think Exxon was, was, was there. And obviously, we understand Venezuela and their relationship with, with the collective West and these big corporations. So there's a lot of moving, moving parts to what's going on. And even Brazil is, is seeming to get involved in what could be a possible conflict in Latin America. What's going on here?

Yes, indeed. Now, this is another legacy of the British Empire. It's funny how the British Empire always turns up as the background caused to all

kinds of conflicts. This is another legacy of the British Empire. Now, the thing to say is that

Guyana, sometimes referred to as British Guyana, was until the 1960s a British colony and a very brutally run colony, by the way.

I'm not going to go into the internal history of Guyana,

but suffice to say that it is sad.

Anyway, the British were in control of this territory in the 19th century.

It's one of the few places in South America

where the predominant language, by the way, is English and in many ways the culture in Guyana

is closer to that of the British Caribbean islands than it is to that of the rest of South America.

Anyway, in the 19th century, the British were of course the most powerful country in the world at that time

and whose empire spanned the globe, established this colony,

and they entered into a bit of quarrel with Venezuela, over where exactly the border of this colony was

to be reached. And the British insisted that it was to be pushed all the way to the, I think it was

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