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Suriname’s Coming Oil Boom

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An aerial view shows sediment in waters along a shoreline, which are brown and cloudy from coastal erosion. From the shoreline to beyond, a lush green landscape extends to the horizon.

As Paramaribo, Suriname, flooded with shin-high water during a rainstorm in June, hundreds of taxis jostled for space on a recently paved street on the outskirts of the capital city. Passengers in suits disembarked alongside an overgrown canal. The visitors, some of whom had come from as far away as Texas and Malaysia, were there to commemorate this small country’s entry into the ranks of the world’s major oil producers.

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