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In Guyana, a poverty-stricken country in South America, a huge oil discovery was made a few years ago by oil giant ExxonMobil, worth about 5 billion dollars. But Guyana is not very politically stable and suffers from enormous corruption and mismanagement. Moreover, the government knows nothing about the oil trade and has signed a 'strangulation contract'; worse than any contract with an oil producing country . Journalist Thomas Loudon travels to Guyana together with director Kim Smeekes to see what the country is doing with the oil discovery.