Something mind-blowing is happening in Suriname
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Oil fever has arrived in Suriname! This small and sparsely populated South American country is the latest to join a select list of countries with large offshore oil fields. Neighbouring Guyana is already striking gold, now Suriname hopes to follow in its footsteps.
However, dangers lurk for Suriname: geopolitical tensions have been brought to the continent by Venezuela over its claim to the Essequibo. And, as if that were not enough, a thoroughly corrupt state negates the chances of wealth reaching a population shaken by poverty and stagnation.
How did Suriname get to this point, why are so many hopes being pinned on this small country, and can the conflict over the Essequibo Guyana disrupt Suriname's plans?
#Suriname #Oil #America
May Suriname rise. Good luck from Ireland 🇮🇪
Love back from Suriname to Ireland🇸🇷🇮🇪
Haha I am Surinamese, Irish and English ❤
I really hope Suriname will be able to confront corruption and grow!
Alas we all already know how things will go.
@@antising8834 that's the thing, I know that it is incredible hard to bit the corruption and that the chances are small
Additionally, I hope that it doesn't succumb to the pressure of Big Oil to basically give away most of its newfound resources like many poor countries did.
Nah.
It will grow as well as it's corruption.
They are copying the Norwegian model instead of the Venezuelan Model.
I hope Suriname uses this money to build schools, universities, infrastructure and create industries in different segments.
That’s not where the money goes
easy to say, but how do you do that for 400.000 people?
@@maggotbrain7499 what need to do, build schools and universities I believe is a good idea for starting… lack of teachers can be solved by importing from Brazil. There have many doctoral students with fluent English(I know Suriname speaks Dutch) without job opportunities due to several economic crises in previous years.
Fabriek bank ect ect
Keep hoping
Venezuela: Did someone say oil?
Did someone say unarmed german civilian ship sinking a venezualian frigatte?
Don't you mean America?
I suspect the Dutch navy might regain something of its old glory if that happens.
US: Yes, they did...
🤣 Venezuela: All of the Guyanas belong to us.🤣
Goodluck from India 🇮🇳 and The Netherlands 🇳🇱 🙏🏽. No need for corruption or greed. there is plenty, enough for everyone and for next generations. Take care of your forest!
I’ve been waiting too see a video about Suriname, while I am from the UK, the country has always fascinated me! Thank you Visual Politik
Me 2 from 🇨🇦 / 🇬🇾
Thank you VisualPolitik to focus the spotlight on us. We'll do everything in our power to deal with the mentioned issues. Have a great weekend. Greetings from Suriname.
Keep government out of the oil business. Private companies are much more difficult to corrupt.
@@user-yp9fb1jb6mprivate companies have no incentive to give back to the public. Just look at the hotel industry in idilic Caribbean islands: big hotel chain buys up prime real estate, ships in workers to build & run the resort, local population gains next to nothing apart from access to one of the most beautiful parts of their island. Only chance they have for earning income is if the tourists leave the resort. But the resorts try their best to offer enough variety of entertainment that guests never have to leave.
Ik hoop echt dat het wat wordt, want dat verdient Suriname _absoluut!_
Oil discoveries are not as exciting as it sounds because most countries with oil wealth don't have their people prosper from it.
Like Dubai
Exxon Mobile: did someone mention my name?
The map of Suriname is not complete here.Tigri is not from Guyana, but from Suriname. Please put the right map in the future!
Has the International Court of Justice ruled that Tigri belongs to Suriname?
Sensitive 😂
@@josephwinslow7613has it ruled it belongs to guyana???
@@lydialegiv5000 and it continues... 🤣
Has it ruled that it belongs to Guyana??? @@josephwinslow7613
Fairly good explanation. Your prononcation of Bouterse however.... LOL
I'm Dutch. We're quite well informed about the situation there.
Suriname needs freedom.
@@benedicttv5058 They don't as they already have it. They need an economy though. And even with oil this is going to be difficult as most of the educated folks left after Bouterse's coup.
Bouterse was pronounced in france
Prononcation? 😂😂😂😂 A mirror please.
@@BOIOLA08 pronouncing was bad I as an Surinamese citizen am saying it. Yes maybe my English is bad but mind you, you English speakers do not have another language to be better in 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠. You guys are cursed.
If oil inevitably led to the prosperity, Venezuela would be a utopian state! Success with oil depends on good governance. This is why Norway is so successful and why oil-rich countries without a democratic tradition or low corruption don't do so well. We like to hear of success stories, but the signs are not good here.
Surinam is deeply democratic.
@@RojillosI hope that is the case and I wish them well! The video didn't make things seem so rosy.
You destabilize a country, steal it's gold reserves and steal it's foreign reserves and place an embargo on it then you blame it for the condition it finds itself in as a result.
oil rich with democratic tradition.. let me guess.. saudi, UAE, qatar, brunei, oman?
I recently learnt Norway donates billions to Guyana every year for climate preservation while Guyana's forest are not exactly a role model to follow, take a plane ride in Guyana's interior and see the amount of destroyed patches of forest made by the miners whom are still there, and of course mostly foreign companies are located there europeans continue to money launder and exploit poor countries this is why they remain rich 😊
Surinam has been known for it's resources in history. A major amount of aluminum ore (bauxite) was mined here for American WWII planes!
You used the incorrect map of Suriname
Did he took over Corentyne?🤣
What do you expect of a Simon Whistler-related channel?
I love suriname from Indonesia 🇮🇩… i hope suriname can be a prosperous country after this oil discovery
I love indonesia! Fun fact allot of people in suriname have roots in indonesia. So their food is a blend of dutch, african and indonesian food. You should try it out. ❤
Thanks for the video. Couple pronunciation corrections:
- Bouterse: first part “Bout” is exactly like “about” but without the “a”, the rest you pronounce like this: bout-er-su
- staatsolie: staa-ts-oh-lee
Yes, the mispronunciation of Bouterse’s name was quite annoying, but the video’s content was otherwise quite useful.
FYI; from 1940 tot 1943 Surinam supplied 65% of US bauxite imports. The aluminium extracted from this was mainly use for the war effort.
But we didn't get rich because it wasn't paid for but stolen otherwise we would've been further in developement it doesn't take a lot for a economie of 5-600 000 people to be stable even if politicians take their part cause that's not an excuse ow much can they take before they get tired, as the "développed" countries and teir multi-nationals keep robbing and showing of their "stolen wealth".
you mean netherland/
Suriname was then a colony of Netherlands. But its still suriname.
Right : the pronounciation of Bouterse is completely wrong. And then the most important thing you guys forgot to mention : he was recently sentenced to jail for 20 years. Probably Bouterse excaped the country and currently there's an arrest warrant from the Suriname government. If caught he will die in prison and he won't be a political or influential factor anymore.
Interesting topic. Enjoyed watching it. But hey, Bouterse shouldn’t be pronounced the French way. He is not the former leader of French Guiana…
It’s pronounced as Bau-ter-se (the Dutch way)
It's probably too much to expect to a Simon Whistler-related channel to get the pronounciation right or the facts complete.
that is NOT the correct map of Suriname you just showed
You have the borders wrong. The disputed areas belong to Suriname 🇸🇷. As a proud Surinamese I love your video
Being Dutch 2 things will happen, the oil money sales will go directly into the pockets of politicians who then, or their successors will, yet again, beg the Dutch government for financial aid.
The sadly true vision for the future.
Some things never change…
I am an Afrikan male born in Suriname. May I draw the following to your attention. The flag of Suriname that you have displayed in this video is geographically in correct. Since the 1960s Guyana has been occupying Surinamese territory in the South known as “Tigri”. While the current leadership of Guyana is claiming the Esequiba region with crocodile tears from neighboring Venezuela, it has forgotten that it is occupying oil rich Surinamese soil in the South. In one way au do not blame the Guyanese because this border dispute is a phenomenon we have inherited form the British and Dutch colonial rulers, who are now playing holy in the geopolitical world arena of justice. We have become victims of Western men greed and must not become enemies
of each other Because a good neighbor is better than a distant european friend at 10 Downing street or the House of Representatives innThe Hague, which has never represented our interests. Read the Iceman inheritance .
This guy thinks santoki is good 😂😂😂 and the amount of scandals his government has are on countable did santoki pay to say that he is that good 😂😂😂😂😂
A lot to say about the after effects of our (the Dutch) colonial years there, also in how many Surinamese folks moved over to us after they gained their independence. Views of these people can vary a lot.
The pronunciation of Surinamese names in this video is funny from a Dutch perspective. They still speak Dutch there, to a large degree at least, and names (for as far as I know) are pronounced more with a Dutch tone. Boo-ter-say as the video says it, it more pronounced as bow-ter-sě. I’m not expert of course, but can’t help noticing it.
Anyway, I hope the changes Suriname goes through end up very positive, that and how forested the country is. From what i know the country is one of only 2 or 3 that absorb more CO2 than create/pollute with it.
As a Dutch person with a Surinamese parent, his pronunciation of Bouterse was really cringy... and he said it SO many times!
@@victorvanderdrift5006 me as a history nerd did (after this video) some amateur reading about postcolonial Suriname, and with many names I couldn’t stop thinking ‘I’m glad they did try to pronounce this one!’. 🤣
Thanks for the brief introduction and history of Suriname, i'd never heard of it until a couple of weeks ago when i found we were exporting a combine harvester and spares there.
❤Tank's Surinam I love you, from Mauritius 🇲🇺💐🇮🇳💐🇪🇺💐🙌👍👏
It is pronounced
Bow (like a ship’s bow)
Tear (like love will tear us apart)
Sai (like in he said without the d)
Bow-tear-sai
Bouterse
Venezuela: Wait, I believe that territory actually belongs to us 😇🤥😉
They wouldn't dare!
@@bencaspar Sure they would, Maduro just fak...- I mean, *organizes* another vote on the matter. Which results in 96% of voters saying Suriname is really territory of Venezuela and there you go 🤷🏻♀️😅
Nonsense!
England annexed the region from Gran Colombia/ Venezuela back than...why can the current Venezuelan not demand essequibo back?
@@gorbaloss9781 Nonsense. Great Britain annexed a part of a Dutch colony from the dutch. Since then, Guayana became an Independent sovereign country.
Venezuela's demands violate international law.
Esequibo is part of Guayana and Venezuela's late interest, after decades of letting the issue collect dust, are because of the oil beeing discovered. Nothing more. Aside from diverting the attention of their own population away from their failing economy.
@@thepax2621
You fail to notice that essequibo was part of Gran Colombia. You fail to understand that gran Colombia was before the Dutch colony. You want to be right...but the facts tell something different.
Please use the correct map of Suriname in future videos.
Thank you
Santokhi is the worst president Suriname ever had
Corruption has never reached the levels its at now
Education, Healthcare, a complete mess
Here is a small prediction. None of that oil money will make it to the Surinam people. EVER
be optimistic
phonetics of the former dictator is more like "Daisy Bowtursuh", bow as in "chow time"
The ONLY ONE who started with discoveries of oil in Suriname in second half of 1970's is Eddy Jharap and his involvement to established the Staatsolie Raffinaderij. Eddy Jharap is still alive and good with the current CEO of Staatsolie. With the president and his team I want to believe their policy will achieve prosperity. Diversity in economics, production and focus on agriculture is key. Wishing this president ALL THE BEST.
I'm happy for the people of Suriname
First Guyana and now Suriname! God has blessed the Guyanas!🙏
All the best. May everything go well in Suriname!
I remember when we could buy 1kg flower for 5 srd now 35 srd and an egg for 1 srd which is now 10 srd
The surinamese dollar is collapsing and i hope it get better soon❤
Damn, your flower has the same price here in the Netherlands. But our hourly minimum wage is 13,5 times higher. So the price you have to pay for flower in Surinam is crazy!
Where's the oil money going? We all want to know who benefits but you want to know who's stealing from you big time?
@@Isochest yes please tell me
Profits for me today over humanity's survival tomorrow. Great plan! Can't wait to see that work wonders for us all.
3:02 I take it there's a grand total of two videos of Suriname from the middle of last century? As cool as watching that same lime-green bus drive down the same street is, I can't imagine this decision was taken on aesthetic grounds alone.
Replicate what from guyana ?? Its succses ??! Longer than 40 years Suriname has its own oil industry ,and its own oil refinery,
THE MAP OF SURINAME IS WRONG!!!
PLEASE PROVIDE CORRECT INFORMATION TO WORLD!!!
CHANGE THE MAP IMMEDIATELY!
THANKS
😡
What's wrong with it?
@@Rainbow_Oracle Everything.
Even Google corrected it's maps several years ago, and you don't know!
The South-Western border is far more to the left, to the West and Guyana inherited this error wrong doing from their colonial masters UK.
As is the case with the Venezuela side of the Guyana border.
Just a small ribbon fake country, sad but true... 🤷🏽♂️😪
😡
Bro calm down 😂
@@GeorgeP-uj8xc NO!
We're sick and tired of this misinformation all the time of all these nonsense you tubers that don't know nothing! 😡
@@robwongls4948Greedy, Just like Venezuela. Have some shame.
Biased article. And no I don't like Bouterse. But Santokhi is also very corrupt.
The research on this video could have been much better, the picture you paint of Suriname is not consistent with the reality of the country. Santokhi's government has been accused of the worst corruption in Suriname's history and most of his policies are failing or heavily opposed by the people because they favor the interests of outside actors.
Exactly and these antics of outsiders giving a flawed reality on what's really going on since the 80's not to mention the Dutch participation in all of this, i'm sure he got his information from the west and their local puppets in Suriname. further more his info has all kinds of holes the first big discovery of oil was before santhoki was even in office, the fact that they put up a quote of him being all for the people means they clearly don't really know him Lol
Oil is a curse. 😢
Could also be a blessing
Just look at Finland or Norway, they have oil, and they put it in a rainy day fund.
Yeh I like not being a peasant toiling in the fields.
Can someone count how many times they showed that same clip of the blue and white van? Just pick some other stock footage!
Could you guys make a video on why India will never be a developed country?
Super power by 2020....
@@relo999 More like superpooper
please update the suriname map Southwest border TIGRI is ours
Hattie de grens met Guyaan wel goetan, of ooknie'?
Suriname was not first sighted by Columbus
You have to remember those are the people who discovered every thing including the sun and moon
I appreciate you just pronouncing the word and not making a big fuss. I also understand intuitively assuming it's supposed to be french style pronunciation, looking at the word. As far as I know, Bouterse is pronounced normally in Dutch, roughly as: Bahoo-ter-seh.
Dear Russia, someone needs to be liberated from 'nazism'. 😂😂😂
The politicscampagne of chan santokhie is genting worst. We people’s of Suriname don’t need this guy because he’s the big corrupt guy. Think of it.
Suriname unknown? Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, Patrick Kluivert, Clarence Seedorf, and many more all have their roots in Suriname.
I've never heard of Suriname not the people you mentioned
@@CyniuxD Then you probably live in the US. They are famous football (soccer) players who have played for the Dutch national team and for European top clubs. In the years before Suriname's independence in 1975 a lot of Surinamese people (who then still had Dutch nationality) moved to the Netherlands, and a significant number of their children developed into excellent football players.
Don't know who any of those people are.
@@ronald3836Ohhh they play povertyball
@-whackd Indeed,they play football. Sadley handegg is not as popular as football.
i REALLY must say you need to inform yourself about how to pronounce Bouterse. The ou is like in loud and the first e is like in litter and the last e is like "uh".
Strange reference to Equatorial Guinea around minute 13:45...
Point of history; Independence was on 25 November 1975, not 1980 that was Bout-er-se, not butese. People had the choice of staying or migrating, and half of the then 600,000 inhabitants migrated to the Netherlands. Bouterse was a military leader who staged a coup d'état in 1980 and committed crimes against the leaders and people of Suriname with a larger event in the so called December killings of 1982. For this, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a Surinamese court in December 2023 and has been a fugitive since.
At ca 13:50 what does equatorial guinea (you know in Africa) have to do with any of this???
The situation concerning Bouterse is being addressed, but it might get worse before it gets better. They seem to have the express the right intentions and that's where it starts.
I tink Guyana and Suriname should merge as one country and become a power in south America we can even liberate French Guiana while we at it
Why?
No
Thats as likely as the Netherlands and Belgium becoming one and annexing Luxembourg, it will never happen.
Will never happen.
1: language.
2: Different rule of law and court system, political system.
3: Lots of Surinamese people hate Guyanese people.
The French in French Guiana are quite happy being French and reject independence.
Sorry, I mean no disrespect, but that short looped footage of the woman standing on the side of the road and the two vans driving by each other... was hard to stomach 😅.
Those few seconds beeing repeated a dozen times or so was too much.
Either make a longer loop or stop showing it after the third repeat.
Same! I commented about it too.
The map you show is incorrect
You are wrong about the raw materials. Suriname was the largest bauxite exporter in the world in the 1960s and 1980s. Only Surimname has never seen a cent of the capital "stolen" by the United States. This was a deal between the Netherlands and the United States to pay off the Dutch debt after the Second World War
Yes indeed
Bouterse is pronounced als Bow-Ter-Se , Bow as in 'now' . Ter as in 'tear' pull/paper . and Se as in 'self'
You do such great research, but why not quickly check the pronunciation of 'Bouterse'?
We especially love it when windfall resources appear in countries that seem less inclined to use their windfall for violence, corruption, and global mayhem. Yes it does seem like a good thing.
Please show our correct map in your video
Nice
I am Afrikan Surinamese. That’s why you deserve my subscription also based on your in-depth analysis of the subject matter. Please take into consideration that in May 2025 we’ll have general presidential elections, which will bring the current opposition party NDP nac ik the drivers seat.
En dan gaat het helemaal afgelopen zijn met Suriname als de ndp terugkomt.
@@apeman9238 vhp is ook niet goed voor Suriname deze regering heeft zoveel schandalen en fraude gedaan dat het NDP goed laat lijken en er is meer vriendjespolitiek in deze regering dan in de vorige de Surinamse economie liegt al aan de grond er is hoop meer behalve 2025 Suriname heeft niet eens geld om artsen te
betalen onderwijs is Suriname in Suriname niets maar een Joke je kan niet eens medicijnen vinden
@@apeman9238 Hmmm het is hoe je dat kijkt. Numbers do not lie. Zuurder kan azijn niet worden. Het is nu al afgelopen met de Suriname onder de Verenigde Hindoestaanse Partij. Prove me wrong met feiten.
13:50 Equatorial Guinea?
All depends on Bouterse. He was sentenced to jail and didn't show up. If he will be lurking in the shadows it might be years later for the country to recover
Excellent, funny how Christopher Columbus first lated site on Suriname. Like the human beings that were there had no sight. Thank you for that.
I'm a big fan of the channel, your content and presented facts. What I'm also a fan of is the silky smooth voice of this presenter. What I'm NOT a fan of is this silky smooth voice is used to sell plug-in devices that can heat Your home for nearly free. Come on guys You can do better than those crappy voice-over adverts
We will get it for sure. But I hope not you will loose Essequibo.
Makes you wonder what makes geologic conditions, better in northern south america, than west africa for hydrocarbons? I know there is oil there too, but the magnitude seems less.
The western border of Suriname is formed by the left bank of our mighty Corantijn River, which starts at the extreme southwestern tip of our territory, where it is named the Upper Corantijn, and from there all the way north to the Atlantic Ocean. That is: that which you drew as dotted line should be a solid line and continue north. The area which you would otherwise bite out of our territory is 20million hectares of our unique and almost (for many other nations) unimaginable rich piece of Amazonic land. And when gathering information about countries, try to consult more with local citizens from as many different backgrounds as possible. Not just mainstream channels.
Fact checking before presenting all this information would be advisable!!,
13:43 How did Equatorial Guinea get wrapped into this? That's on the other side of the Atlantic.
Corruption in Guyana is one thing but Surinam is a whole other level. 😂 there would be obvious benefits to the people but a lot of stealing as well.
😂😂😂😂 Guyana is way worse my friend the oil deals the made are one of the dumbest dicisions I have ever heard of Guyana is basically sold 😂😂😂 Exxon mobile just bought Guyana 😂😂
13:52 what does Equitorial Guinea have to do here? Was that a mistake?
I think also the east neigthbor of Suriname Franse - Guyana that is still a colony of Franse have oil.
The land chart is not good.Can you put the right one.Thank you
nice but wrong map tho!
Oil can be a game changer but it completely depends upon how the wealth is distributed. That is the biggest challenge.
Also, Suriname needs to be fast, as oil consumption will be going down each year. But while still need it, it would sure be nice to buy it from Suriname, instead of some middle east authocracy.
Greetings from India to the Surinamese, majority of whose ancestors had gone from India in the 19th century and most of the leaders/administrators of past and present were/are of Indian origin.
Many Indians in Suriname and Guyana practise Bhoj Puri language and customs The children speak better Hindi than Guyanese too,on the whole.Still have night weddings as happened in India.Hindustani as they are still called in Dutch have many close relations in Guyana traditionally They were 'jahajees'.
@@lorettanarain445 I read it many years ago. Thanks for the information. Best wishes.
I wish them all the best, but I suspect that the phrase "curse of natural resources" will play prominently in their future.
Am from suriame ❤
I have supplied the drilling pipes to Staatsoil Suriname for the exploration there. Suriname could be the Kuwait of South-America. Full of oil and gold. Only problem is probably their leadership. If they get a leader with vision….poverty could be gone very fast, as its a country with a very limited population.
pray for us I am 62 and want this to happen for my great and great grand childeren to have better living and education
Another small country is in for a rude awakening when they meet the greed of the world.
The USA isn't corrupted 😅😂😢
Suriname sure is an interesting country.
I know Suriname very well. My wife and family are creolen Surinamese. Unfortunately, the country is in the hands of corrupt conglomerates and only that select small group of people, will benefit from this. It’s the 13rh richest country in the world (based on resources) , yet the country is being whore’d out to the Americans and Chinese, whilst the population is being drenched in poverty. I sincerely hope things will get better, I really do
@@donmab yes , there are many. With that sentence I mean the country and its recourses are plundered and drained by large companies, while only they , ánd the small group of politicians providing the permits and legislation, are getting insanely rich. I don’t know how else I could describe it other than how I already did.
Indeed. Well said.
It’s Essequibo not Equatorial Guinea.
Finally it will come down to the politicians and how they manage that money
Never ever have I heard someone butcher the name Bouterse so badly! :D
I somehow can't take it seriously with how you gave bouterse a french name xd
Thought the same 😂
It's about 15 dollar per person and day if the revenues is 50%.
In surinam that's good money.
@@Rojillosgood for you. I wish the best for the Surinam people. 😊
Some day, I'll vacation there.
Wherever there is OIL there will be TURMOIL.
Yeah, can't share your enthusiasm.
Poor Country with high corruption and weak democratic tradition finds oil. Seen this story a few times before, never ends well.
There’s just no way this works out well for them unfortunately.
Bouterse is not pronounced as "Boe-ters" but as Bow-ter-se
Suriname is the most diverse country of south America we have people from the hole world living in Suriname
Except for the name butchering of almost all the names, it's a very informative video.
Hint: The name BOUterse is NOT pronounced with the OO from bOOt but with the OU from abOUt.