This is CBSI in the World, The New World Report. Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War

College, I'm John Batchel, learning about a region I am ignorant of until the professor began

his lesson some years ago. This was not part of my 20th century education, and I apologize

for it. I did take American

studies in college. Surprisingly, for the middle of the 20th century, with wonderful professors

lecturing on the foundations of America, there was no attention to that suggestion that

America is more than America, which is now commonplacedly understood.

We're speaking of the Americas.

The New World is one great big entity to address here in the 21st century.

And without Spanish, without an understanding of where these countries began and the risks that they take,

given that the lines were drawn by colonial masters, not interested in paying attention to the

region, to the people who live there, to the resources, we plunge into Suriname.

I've learned from the professor and studying a map that Suriname is a small state with a coastline and great riches.

The most recent conversation we've had about Suriname is a man named Albert Ramdeen, whom the professor speaks very well of, was elected the OAS's

first Caribbean Central Secretary General. The OAS is an organization that was founded in the

19th century very proudly by the American Republic as a way of addressing the development of all of Latin America.

Since then, the OAS is not longer in the lead of conversations.

It could be, however.

And the significance here is that Suriname thinks of itself both as part of the continent,

Latin America, and part of the Caribbean.

Professor, you tell me that there is good news about Suriname.

I welcome it.

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