eyesonguyana A Rising Tide in South America Far beneath the turquoise waters of the Atlantic, a seismic shift is underway. For decades, the energy map of the Americas was dominated by familiar heavyweights. Today, the spotlight has swung decisively toward the northern coast of South America, where Guyana and Suriname are rapidly emerging as the…
Read more
And the One Advantage Suriname Doesn’t Have Two neighbors, one offshore basin, two very different starting points. Guyana got a five-year head start and a language advantage. Here’s what it actually did with them — and what’s left for Suriname to copy. eyesonguyana Amsterdam, July 28, 2026 – Guyana and Suriname share more than a…
Read more
Why Suriname can’t take off eyesonguyana They share a border, a coastline, a geology, and a dream. Both Guyana and Suriname sit perched on the northern rim of South America, two small, sparsely populated nations that for most of their post-colonial histories ranked among the poorest on the continent. Then the offshore drilling rigs arrived,…
Read more
How Guyana Could Be the Biggest Winner of the Strait of Hormuz Crisis eyesonguyana Amsterdam, April 14, 2026– While the world holds its breath watching U.S. Navy destroyers patrol the choke point that carries a fifth of the planet’s oil, a small South American nation tucked between Venezuela and Brazil is quietly sitting on one…
Read more
ENRICH in LAC in Argentina — and the Paradox of Milei Argentina brings to ENRICH in LAC one of the most remarkable science ecosystems in the developing world. Its new president is simultaneously dismantling that ecosystem at home and racing to open the doors to Europe like no Argentine leader before him. eyesonguyana There is…
Read more
A conservative revolution in Santiago meets one of the most ambitious Europe–Latin America innovation bridges ever built. eyesonguyana When José Antonio Kast strode to the podium in Santiago on the night of December 14, 2025, waving a Chilean flag before a jubilant crowd, few observers were thinking about science policy. His campaign had been dominated…
Read more
How ENRICH in LAC and Uruguay Are Rewriting the Rules of Global Innovation Where Europe meets Latin America, a quiet revolution in science, technology, and sustainability is underway — and Uruguay is at its centre. eyesonguyana A Network Built for the Future In a world where breakthrough discoveries rarely happen in isolation, the European Network…
Read more
A Small Nation’s Giant Moment SHIELD OF THE AMERICAS · PART II Guyana, the Shield of the Americas, and the New Geopolitics of Oil at the Edge of the World GEORGETOWN, GUYANA | MARCH 2026 For most of its 58 years as an independent nation, Guyana occupied a curious position in the global imagination —…
Read more
Trump, Venezuela, and the Future of Guyana’s Oil eyesonguyana Amsterdam, 16 February 2026–The territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region is no longer a dormant nineteenth-century border quarrel. It now sits at the heart of one of the most consequential energy transformations in the Western Hemisphere. Since 2015, when ExxonMobil announced major…
Read more
Why a Guyana-Venezuela Alliance is the World’s Next Energy Superpower eyesonguyana The transition in Caracas hasn’t just silenced the drums of war in the Essequibo; it has opened the door to a “Power Couple” dynamic that could rewrite the global energy map. If Secretary Marco Rubio’s vision of a self-funded Venezuela comes to pass, the…
Read more
