John Batchelor 09-03 segment 8.mp3 Guests: Gordon Chang and Rebecca Grant, Vice President of the Lexington Institute. Venezuela, Guyana, and US Deterrence in the Caribbean Rebecca Grant discusses Guyana'sburgeoning oil wealth and Venezuela's threatening
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
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| 0:24.0 | This is CBS, I'm the World. I'm John Batchel with my colleague and friend Gordon Chang at Gordon G. |
| 0:29.0 | Chang. We welcome the vice president of the Lexington Institute, Rebecca Grant, to comment |
| 0:34.1 | on news off of Venezuela, but not what you think, not drug interdiction or the condemnation |
| 0:42.4 | of Madura, the dictator of Venezuela as a drug lord to be contained, ASAP. No, this is about oil, |
| 0:50.7 | light, sweet crude, the really good stuff. Oil, threat of war in China, writes the headline at CNN, |
| 0:57.8 | why elections in this small South American country are crucial for the U.S. |
| 1:02.3 | We're talking about Guyana, which at one point was a British colony, |
| 1:06.7 | and more than 100 years ago was given to understand that it controlled certain amount of |
| 1:12.3 | what you'd have to say unlivable Amazonian jungle along the stretch of Venezuela to the north. |
| 1:20.6 | It also has offshore island claims and offshore mineral right claims. |
| 1:28.1 | A discovery within these last years by a major oil company, Exxon, I believe, says that there |
| 1:34.6 | are billions and billions of barrels of oil off Ghanas coast. |
| 1:39.6 | Since then, Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela, has made claims that suggest there might be military |
| 1:47.3 | trouble for Guyana, a small nation without a military that could stand up to Venezuela. |
| 1:53.6 | And now we turn to why the elections matter. Rebecca, a very good evening to you. |
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