The small South American country that is now the biggest thing in global oil
by editors@theworld.org (Carol Hills) from The World: Latest Stories on (#6N61C)
ExxonMobil, Hess and Chevron are haggling over their stakes in Guyana's $150 billion-plus offshore oil project. The tiny South American country finds itself the apple of Big Oil's eye as it is now home to the biggest oil discovery of the past decade. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Gaiutra Bahadur, a Guyanese American author, reporter and professor of journalism and English at Rutgers University, who has written about what's at stake for Guyana.