Suriname’s Oil Boom Is Back From The Brink
The deeply impoverished South American country Suriname was sharply impacted by the 2020 pandemic and has yet to recover. A snowballing economic crisis that took hold in the wake of the pandemic can be blamed on years of fiscal mismanagement, malfeasance and corruption during the years when convicted murderer and narcotics smuggler Desi Bouterse held power. The government of Bouterse’s successor President Chan Santokhi who had hoped to resurrect the economy through an oil boom mirror neighboring Guyana’s, is under considerable…