@@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.
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.
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.
@@GeorgeDoughty-m8eprivate 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.
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.
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.
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 😊
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 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. ❤
@@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.
@@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.
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".
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
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)
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.
@@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!’. 🤣
This is very disrespectful to the proud nation of Suriname. Your quality is very very low, not to respect the official map of the country you dare to picture to the world. Shame on you, Josh Faulks!
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
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.
@@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... 🤷🏽♂️😪 😡
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.
@@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 🤷🏻♀️😅
@@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.
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.
As a Dutchman I apologize for my ancestors killing yer birds. But then, we were the first of Mauritius. Mauritius named after Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau
@@SeeNyuOG 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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The United States is the world's most corrupt country, with its corrupt agencies like the CIA, FBI, DEA, and the Federal Reserve. It also exerts undue influence over supposedly independent organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund.
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'.
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.
@@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.
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.
I'm born and live in the Netherlands but I have a Surinamese background. Suriname is a beautiful country with a rich history, fascinating demographics (people from African, Asian Indian, Chinese, Javanese, native Indians and more) and has a delicious, fusion cuisine. Besides that, it's the only country in South America where Dutch is the official language. Unfortunately, however, corruption and nepotism are large scale problems and penetrate through each layer of society. If Surinam society manages to overcome these problems, then the country has a bright future ahead!
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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
😂😂😂😂 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 😂😂
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.
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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".
I hope Suriname uses this money to developing Paramaribo and other cities. Build nice roads and highways to connect the various towns. Modernise military too.
I am just wondering. If the first time they could start extracting oil is 2028, how long would they eventually be able to sell that. Solar panels, batteries, EVs, electric scooters, electric bikes and buses are going to make oil obsolete by the beginning of the 2030s. These investments will become stranded assets fairly soon as I see it.
Solar and wind energy won't take over oil anytime soon except maybe in a few places where people have enough money to buy themselves a moral high ground without oil.
I wish you were right, but you are not. Oil and gas will be used in the world for (my estimate) at least 150 years. And yes, I am pessimistic about the chances of survival of mankind.
Even if you are right, oil will be used for decades to come for (plastic) manufacturing. This will probably allow for even larger profit margins than oil that is mostly burned in engines.
You been reading too much EU and USA news articles i see, oil will be around for many years to come, the EU and USA have been trying to fool the global south that they will be pioneers in Green energy só as not to pay and compensate all the damage they caused to the global south when they exploited their lands and are still exploiting until this date.
May Suriname share its new found richness with its inhabitants, improve its infrastructure, educate its people and thrive for a long time. Good luck to all.
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.
I'm Dutch, and for me it is unthinkable that Suriname is a forgotten or unknown country. BTW, your pronunciation of Bouterse is way off. You assumed that the last letter is silent, but we don't do that; it has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first. Both letters "e" are similar to the word "the", and "Bou" rhymes with "now" and "cow".
I hope Suriname can over come the odds and truly use the money to help it's citizens.. But, those odds are not in their favor. Money can corrupt even the best of people. I wish them well.
May Suriname rise. Good luck from Ireland 🇮🇪
Love back from Suriname to Ireland🇸🇷🇮🇪
Haha I am Surinamese, Irish and English ❤
Thanks ❤❤❤❤
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
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.
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.
@@GeorgeDoughty-m8eprivate 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!_
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.🤣
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
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!
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 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. ❤
that is NOT the correct map of Suriname you just showed
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.
The way he prounounces Bouterse xD
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.
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.
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 🇨🇦 / 🇬🇾
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.
Santokhi is the worst president Suriname ever had
Corruption has never reached the levels its at now
Education, Healthcare, a complete mess
Partially the work of Desi Bouterse.
Here is a small prediction. None of that oil money will make it to the Surinam people. EVER
be optimistic
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!’. 🤣
Please use the correct map of Suriname in future videos.
Thank you
This is very disrespectful to the proud nation of Suriname.
Your quality is very very low, not to respect the official map of the country you dare to picture to the world.
Shame on you, Josh Faulks!
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
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
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.
You used the incorrect map of Suriname
Did he took over Corentyne?🤣
What do you expect of a Simon Whistler-related channel?
Seems correct to me
I'm happy for the people of Suriname
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.
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.
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 🇲🇺💐🇮🇳💐🇪🇺💐🙌👍👏
As a Dutchman I apologize for my ancestors killing yer birds. But then, we were the first of Mauritius. Mauritius named after Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau
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
@@SeeNyuOG 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.
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
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.
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.
Could you guys make a video on why India will never be a developed country?
Super power by 2020....
@@relo999 More like superpooper
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
Dear Russia, someone needs to be liberated from 'nazism'. 😂😂😂
First Guyana and now Suriname! God has blessed the Guyanas!🙏
God is a nasty dude!
Replicate what from guyana ?? Its succses ??! Longer than 40 years Suriname has its own oil industry ,and its own oil refinery,
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…
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.
Can someone count how many times they showed that same clip of the blue and white van? Just pick some other stock footage!
All the best. May everything go well in Suriname!
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!!,
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.
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.
The USA isn't corrupted 😅😂😢
The United States is the world's most corrupt country, with its corrupt agencies like the CIA, FBI, DEA, and the Federal Reserve. It also exerts undue influence over supposedly independent organizations such as the United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund.
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 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.
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.
please update the suriname map Southwest border TIGRI is ours
Hattie de grens met Guyaan wel goetan, of ooknie'?
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.
Good luck suriname love from 🇬🇾
I'm born and live in the Netherlands but I have a Surinamese background. Suriname is a beautiful country with a rich history, fascinating demographics (people from African, Asian Indian, Chinese, Javanese, native Indians and more) and has a delicious, fusion cuisine. Besides that, it's the only country in South America where Dutch is the official language. Unfortunately, however, corruption and nepotism are large scale problems and penetrate through each layer of society. If Surinam society manages to overcome these problems, then the country has a bright future ahead!
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.
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.
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 .
As an Indian, our women must be protected from your kind.
Another small country is in for a rude awakening when they meet the greed of the world.
Please also take in account environmental issues connected to oil industry!!
You are misinformed about Bouterse.
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.
nice but wrong map tho!
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
Suriname is the most diverse country of south America we have people from the hole world living in Suriname
Wherever there is OIL there will be TURMOIL.
Excellent, funny how Christopher Columbus first lated site on Suriname. Like the human beings that were there had no sight. Thank you for that.
The map you show is incorrect
If they want to ensure that oil resources benefit all of the population, talk to Norway.
Wouldn’t hurt to check next time with a native dutch speaker to get the pronounciation of names and places right
IF only IF .... Corruption isn't involved.
Suriname shall rise again....love Suriname forever.
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 😂😂
So Suriname had they're very own Donald Trump too apparently.
Never ever have I heard someone butcher the name Bouterse so badly! :D
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.
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
Money , power , and greed ; know no bounds .
Just put corruption aside
Please show our correct map in your video
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".
As a Dutchie I can only say: "Suriname, you've earned it"
Love Suriname 🇸🇷.
I hope Suriname uses this money to developing Paramaribo and other cities. Build nice roads and highways to connect the various towns. Modernise military too.
I am just wondering. If the first time they could start extracting oil is 2028, how long would they eventually be able to sell that. Solar panels, batteries, EVs, electric scooters, electric bikes and buses are going to make oil obsolete by the beginning of the 2030s. These investments will become stranded assets fairly soon as I see it.
Solar and wind energy won't take over oil anytime soon except maybe in a few places where people have enough money to buy themselves a moral high ground without oil.
I wish you were right, but you are not. Oil and gas will be used in the world for (my estimate) at least 150 years. And yes, I am pessimistic about the chances of survival of mankind.
Even if you are right, oil will be used for decades to come for (plastic) manufacturing. This will probably allow for even larger profit margins than oil that is mostly burned in engines.
You been reading too much EU and USA news articles i see, oil will be around for many years to come, the EU and USA have been trying to fool the global south that they will be pioneers in Green energy só as not to pay and compensate all the damage they caused to the global south when they exploited their lands and are still exploiting until this date.
We will get it for sure. But I hope not you will loose Essequibo.
The land chart is not good.Can you put the right one.Thank you
Bouterse is pronounced als Bow-Ter-Se , Bow as in 'now' . Ter as in 'tear' pull/paper . and Se as in 'self'
Finally it will come down to the politicians and how they manage that money
May Suriname share its new found richness with its inhabitants, improve its infrastructure, educate its people and thrive for a long time.
Good luck to all.
So...whatever happened to the notion of peak oil???
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.
I'm Dutch, and for me it is unthinkable that Suriname is a forgotten or unknown country.
BTW, your pronunciation of Bouterse is way off. You assumed that the last letter is silent, but we don't do that; it has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first. Both letters "e" are similar to the word "the", and "Bou" rhymes with "now" and "cow".
I hope Suriname can over come the odds and truly use the money to help it's citizens.. But, those odds are not in their favor. Money can corrupt even the best of people. I wish them well.
Am from suriame ❤
As a Surinamer, it's only the rich that will enjoy this.
THE TIGER TRIANGEL Southwest OFF SURINAM IS SURINAM TERRITORY OCCUPAID BY GUYANA SINCE 1969
IN SURINAM THEY CALL IT
THE UPPER CORRANTEYNE .
What a sad story another country thrown into chaos because of oil profits