Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.

In New York, I'm your host, John Fassman.

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

A few years back, Exxon found oil off the coast of Guiana.

Our correspondent visits to see how a gush of petr dollars might change this small Anglophone

country on South America's northern coast.

And with their pouches and BDI's, Koala's rank among the world's most recognizable creatures.

But they're also under threat from a well-known sexually transmitted disease spreading rampantly

among the already beleaguered wild population.

It's election time in the Philippines.

This weekend is the last push of campaigning before voters heads at the polls on Monday.

The election law restricts presidents to a single six-year term.

So at stake is who will succeed the fiery populist incumbent, Rodrigo Guterre.

The favorite, Ferdinand Bong-Bong Marcos, has had a surprisingly muted campaign.

But his low-key demeanor seems to have worked.

He's likely to win on Monday, cementing a return to power for one of the country's most

controversial families.

Are in an earth-shadowing surprise of some sort of unprecedented bowling era of Ferdinand

Bong-Bong Marcos, we win Philippine election on Monday, May 9th by a landslide.

Leo Morani is the economist, Asia Editor.

So the name Bong-Bong, which is a great name, if you don't focus on that part of his

name, but you focus on the rest of it, which is Ferdinand Marcos, should tell you that

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