Guiana

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guiana was expected to get independence within perhaps a year. It already has home rule now, unless the strike can be settled quickly. By the end of the decade they'll be producing more than a million barrels of oil per day for xon alone. One and ten barrels of oil that they produce every day will be coming from guionese seas in 20 30.

Voters in the Philippines choose a new president on Monday. The likely winner is a scion of one of the country’s most controversial families. Exxon struck oil off the coast of Guyana a few years back. How will becoming a petrostate change this small country on South America’s northern coast? And koalas are adorable but imperilled—by development, stray dogs and now, a quickly spreading bacterial infection.