#NewWorldReport: Guyana strikes oil. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
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#NewWorldReport: Guyana strikes oil. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/oil-exxon-hess-guyana-7c2ca1f3?mod=hp_lead_pos8
1924 British Guyana
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye on the World. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:11.0 | The New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm John Bachelor and we go to the front page of the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:21.0 | Georgetown, Guiana. |
| 0:24.0 | New supermarkets here are stocked with Prime Texas ribeyes. |
| 0:28.0 | A recently opened waterfront hotel offers executive suites for $750 per night. |
| 0:35.0 | The national cricket team called the Amazon Warriors is getting a new stadium that begins construction next spring. |
| 0:42.0 | What's happened? |
| 0:44.0 | Guiana, once British Guiana, a small state, poor, very poor, |
| 0:50.0 | part of the three states that are a legacy of the colonial past in the Americas, |
| 0:57.0 | British Guiana, and now Guiana. |
| 1:00.0 | Dutch Guiana, now called Suriname, and French Guiana is still a colonial property. |
| 1:06.0 | Those three states are in the news because of Exxon, |
| 1:10.0 | and an oil strike that the Wall Street Journal reports is the best in a generation. |
| 1:17.0 | A professor of very good evening to you, you have no Guiana, |
| 1:21.0 | and the three Guiana is very well from your time at the State Department, |
| 1:25.0 | and you introduce me to this tangled of the future and the past some months ago. |
| 1:31.0 | And here it is on the front page of the Wall Street Journal because, |
| 1:35.0 | as it once was British Guiana, there's no reason to call it Exxon, Guiana. |
| 1:40.0 | What's happened, Professor? Good evening to you. |
| 1:43.0 | Well, when you look at South America, the kind of curving northeast coast, |
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