The Guianas
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Sep 23, 2026
Mark NelsonNARRATOR
He switched on the radio again, goosed the engines to full speed, and after a moment's thought, swung around on a northeasterly heading.
Mark NelsonNARRATOR
His first impulse had been to head south, aiming for Yucatan, or the Guianas, but that impulse would also be the first to strike his pursuers, who were sure to come.
Mark NelsonNARRATOR
A new voice was growling on the radio, and he recognized it as Captain Barkley, his usually jovial, slightly cynical commanding officer.
Mark NelsonNARRATOR
Listen, Mitch, if you can hear me.
John BatchelorHOST
Go ahead, finish.
Alejandro Peña EsclusaGUEST
Yeah, so it's better to leave these territories to their original proprietaries, their original owners, in the case of Malvinas, Argentina, and in the case of the Guayanas, Equiba, Venezuela.
John BatchelorHOST
Ernesto Arrujo, former foreign minister of the Republic of Brazil, and Alejandro Pena Esclusa, member of the opposition in Venezuela.
John BatchelorHOST
I'm John Batchelor.
Shayla FontaineHOST
So in the 1580s, we have the expeditions of Antonio de Berrio, who became obsessed with finding El Dorado.
Shayla FontaineHOST
And he set out from Colombia towards the Orinoco River and this Guiana region.
Shayla FontaineHOST
And he talked to indigenous people who gave him reports, you know, of wealthy settlements farther east.
Shayla FontaineHOST
Not here, of course.
Shayla FontaineHOST
He's trying to get it back.
Shayla FontaineHOST
Finding El Dorado ought to do it.
Shayla FontaineHOST
So he heads for Guiana in 1595, the current trending theory as to the location of El Dorado.
Shayla FontaineHOST
But he's not like carving out a path through the dense wilderness like all these other guys.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Santo Domingo, where rubber was first discovered, is now under our supervision and could be enriched by the industry.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The Guianas, where the rubber tree was first studied, might be purchased.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
It is chiefly for lack of a definite colonial policy that our rubber industry, by far the largest in the world, has to be dependent upon foreign sources for all its raw materials.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Because the Philippines are likely to be cast off at any moment, American manufacturers are placing their plantations in the Dutch or British possessions.
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Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
A lump of gutta percha was brought from Java in 1766 and placed in a British museum, where it lay for nearly a hundred years before it occurred to anybody to do anything with it except to look at it.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
But a German electrician, Siemens, discovered in 1847 that gutta percha was valuable for insulating telegraph lines, and it found extensive employment in submarine cables as well as for golf balls and the like.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
Balata, which is found in the forests of the Guianas, is between gutta percha and rubber, not so good for insulation, but useful for shoe soles and machine belts.
Pamela NagamiNARRATOR
The bark of the tree is so thick that the latex does not run off like caoutchouc when the bark is cut, so the bark has to be cut off and squeezed in hand presses.
Jaime BritoGUEST
It's completely limited, because specifically around the Middle East, you have no alternative options.
Jaime BritoGUEST
And the rest of the world, whatever, whoever could produce one more barrel to export it, either Guyanas, Brazils, Nigerians, or even the U.S., who have been gradually increasing production, around 4% of production increased from the U.S. between March to today.
Jaime BritoGUEST
That's pretty much the size of the response.
Jaime BritoGUEST
You can export maybe 500,000 barrels per day more, 700,000, but you cannot fill a gap of 2 to 3 million to 4 million barrels per day.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
There was once a woman who had an only son, and they lived in great contentment in a little house by the side of the lake and at the foot of a mountain.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
Now, if you go to Guiana, you may see both lake and mountain to this day.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
In all that land, there was no lad so straight, so tall, so graceful as Aura.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
And, what is better still, he was kind and gentle.
ReynosoHOST
They
SolteroHOST
can beat the Guyanas.
SolteroHOST
Can they? I don't know if they can.
SolteroHOST
They can.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
The Calabash Man There was once a woman who had an only son, and they lived in great contentment in a little house by the side of the lake and at the foot of a mountain.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
Now if you go to Guiana, you may see both lake and mountain to this day.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
In all that land there was no lad so straight, so tall, so graceful as Aura.
Keith GormleyNARRATOR
And, what is better still, he was kind and gentle.
speaker_0NARRATOR
In view of the impaired financial resources of Venezuela consequent upon the recent revolution there, a modified arrangement for the satisfaction of the awards of the late Revisory Claims Commission in progressive installments has been assented to and payments are being regularly made thereunder.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The boundary dispute between Venezuela and British Guiana is yet unadjusted.
speaker_0NARRATOR
A restoration of diplomatic intercourse between that republic and Great Britain and reference of the question to impartial arbitration would be a most gratifying consummation.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The ratification by Venezuela of the Convention for the Arbitration of the Long-Deferred Claim of the Venezuelan Transportation Company is awaited.
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speaker_0NARRATOR
Thus far, only France and Portugal have signified their willingness to adhere to the regulations established under the award of the Paris Tribunal of Arbitration.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Preliminary surveys of the Alaskan boundary and a preparatory examination of the question of protection of fish food in the contiguous waters of the United States and the Dominion of Canada are in progress.
speaker_0NARRATOR
The boundary of British Guiana still remains in dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Believing that its early settlement on some just basis alike honorable to both parties is in the line of our established policy to remove from this hemisphere all causes of difference with powers beyond the sea, I shall renew the efforts heretofore made to bring about a restoration of diplomatic relations between the disputants and to induce a reference to arbitration, a resort which Great Britain so conspicuously favors in principle and respects in practice, and which is earnestly sought by her weaker adversary.
speaker_6NARRATOR
I noticed that their flight was as perfect as that of some kinds of birds, and that it very closely resembled that of the swallow.
speaker_6NARRATOR
in that it was a skimming circling flight i had read that the flying fish rarely leaves the water unless pursued by a shark or some other fish to which it is a prey and that on leaving the water it does not really fly but instead emerges from the water on an upward plane enabling it to skim along for some distance i had read also that the fish is unable to remain in the air only while its wings are wet this latter statement is undoubtedly correct but i observed that its flight was perfect the fish making use of its greatly elongated and highly developed pectoral fins as wings i saw them flying singly and in flocks or schools when they were not pursued by sharks and i was thoroughly convinced that they actually did fly they gyrated in the air exactly like swallows and moved their wings very rapidly like birds there seemed to be no limit to the length of their flight for they would rise from beneath the bows and fly away in a continuous line until lost to sight in the distance once one dropped upon the deck in the night and the cook broiled it assuring us that his flesh was very delicate much like that of a fresh-water perch and indeed so it proved to be the captain had taken a course much farther to the eastward than he would ordinarily Usually, in going to the Guianas, the route is through the Bahama Group, by way of the Crooked Island Channel, thence through the windward passage between Cuba and Haiti, and across the Caribbean Sea, by the east end of Jamaica.
speaker_6NARRATOR
But Mr.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Sergeant wished to go farther to the eastward, so as to pass among the leeward islands, perhaps landing there to await the return of the bark from the coast.
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