Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

South America's third poorest country won't be for long. Guyana recently struck oil

and a staggering economic boom awaits. Today's decision on last week's disputed election

will determine how that flood of oil wealth will be managed or mismanaged.

And look around many cities and you'll find all manner of gates, rails and barriers designed

to foil attacks using vehicles. This anti-terror architecture is seen as a necessary evil

in uncertain times, but does all of it have to be ugly?

Just up though.

Today the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will be sentenced. Last month he

was convicted of rape and criminal sexual assault and faces up to 29 years in prison.

Prosecutors have urged the judge to consider what they called a lifetime of abuse towards

others. Even though for most of those alleged abuses Mr. Weinstein has never been charged.

His lawyers have petitioned for the minimum sentence of five years, saying that any longer

could constitute a de facto life sentence. After Mr. Weinstein's conviction, the Manhattan

District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said the change had come to America.

This is a big day. This is a new day and I hope women will understand the significance

of the jury verdict today. His optimism was echoed by some of Mr. Weinstein's accusers

and their lawyers.

It is a historic shift that I never thought I would see in my lifetime.

Change has come today.

I have a message for Harvey. For all abusers, rape myth perpetrators, victim blamers and

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