Undercover In Guyana: Exposing Chinese Business in South America

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  • Опубликовано: 6 июл 2022
  • China’s rapidly growing presence in South America has reached Guyana. Vice News goes undercover to expose allegations of corruption in business deals between the two countries.
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Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @kalinda619
    @kalinda619 Год назад +8358

    Despite the unassuming title, this is one of the biggest journalistic scoops this year. Kudos to Isobel and her team for risking their lives for this important work.

    • @bugpack6
      @bugpack6 Год назад +104

      I love watching her stories!! She is great

    • @bgymr9722
      @bgymr9722 Год назад +108

      The Chinese government has done this in the Republic of Congo. Kobalt is essential to the green economy, and their state owns 18/20 biggest mining sites.

    • @dr.z8378
      @dr.z8378 Год назад +56

      The hard truth is almost all developing countries have this issue whether you like it or not. I have personally been in a number of developing countries, these corruptions are common knowledge. But another painful truth is the importance of money. If a poor country tries to be righteous and make hard obstacles for foreign investments. Government will not have jobs for people, food for people, schools, hospitals etc. Corruption is the painful dark way every developing country has to go through in order to be prosperous.

    • @neddymerrill
      @neddymerrill Год назад

      A "scoop", lol. The US, France, and commonwealth countries have been doing the same thing in every third world nation since said nations gained "independence". Suddenly, western media is highly concerned about imperialism and economic exploitation of the third world, because China is doing some of it 😅. By the way, China does way more to actually develop the countries it harvests resources from than former colonial powers ever did.

    • @JamesOutonBond
      @JamesOutonBond Год назад +121

      @@dr.z8378 That doesn't make any sense. The reality is foreign countries come in and strip the resources while still leaving the indigenous people poor. Besides, it looks as though these indigenous people aren't dependent on money but the land itself.

  • @Rossdesigns
    @Rossdesigns Год назад +318

    His face and pretend confusion when she said his friends name, he knew that she actually knew what was up and wasn't making allegations. Priceless. Again and again Isobel Yeung proves to be a top tier journalist.

    • @elseascotty9346
      @elseascotty9346 Год назад +1

      Good point

    • @spartan_ap8770
      @spartan_ap8770 Год назад +1

      their meeting with jagdeo was all theatre..he said nothing in the interview or the meeting that would implicate him.
      He was only stumped because of the sudden realization that the interview was actually an insulting/interrogation.
      this video is simply the US making China the bad guy when really the opposite is true.

    • @cherylbarker6256
      @cherylbarker6256 Год назад +2

      Because he is a criminal

    • @rambonatorrrr6694
      @rambonatorrrr6694 7 месяцев назад +3

      That made me laugh so hard, he is such a bad liar. Almost looks like a sketch.

    • @spiderduckpig
      @spiderduckpig 6 месяцев назад +3

      He looked so nervous and is so bad at lying lmao it's like out of a movie

  • @shakirlowe9663
    @shakirlowe9663 Год назад +56

    As a Guyanese I have to say that this isn't really news to us.. we are aware of these things but can't do anything about it. This video has aired out alot of our country's dirty laundry and I have to admit its left a bitter tatse in my mouth but awarness is the first step to any movement and for that I want to thank you.

    • @shakirlowe9663
      @shakirlowe9663 Год назад +6

      I also want to stress the fact that this was indeed very dangerous.. you and your entire crew could have been offed by Guyana's Phantom squad or the Black clothes police.

  • @Gordonmark06
    @Gordonmark06 Год назад +63

    As a citizen of Guyana, it is my first time watching your reporting and I am grateful to you Ms. Young. With that said, I am extremely proud of your relentless pursuit of the truth regardless of where it may lead. Your reporting has served as an education and warning to those who wish to continue closing their eyes to the decimation of Guyana. The wealthy countries maintain an agenda that promotes plunder and extraction of resources, wherever it may be found. As a result Guyana will be left as a wasteland (repeated history) while it's defenders (PPP/PNC) scramble to hold unto worthless paper whose accounts will be frozen by the same marauders after the deed is done.

    • @GH-ev1tx
      @GH-ev1tx 24 дня назад +1

      Stand together as Guyana people. You guys are acting too soft. It's your land.

    • @GH-ev1tx
      @GH-ev1tx 24 дня назад +1

      Can you do that in China? Think about it!!!!

  • @patphilloccap
    @patphilloccap Год назад +453

    The VP's face and tone when Mr. Su's name was dropped... priceless!

  • @deztinii124
    @deztinii124 Год назад +764

    As a Guyanese I’m glad someone is taking the time to highlight news in Guyana worldwide. There’s a lot of corruption that has taken place for a long time in Guyana and the people don’t deserve to have their beautiful country destroyed for greed

    • @Dkthearn
      @Dkthearn Год назад

      You're absolutely right I find an interesting that these people only work through greed that's why I tell people that you're a real vote is your dollar here in the United States they were trying to push bioengineered food on us not only that but they didn't want to have to tell you if it's real or not people decided to fight against that and chose to boycott those bioengineered foods to the point where it created a new market for organics foods even though organic foods have always been around that's why I say the real vote is the dollar look where the money is going

    • @elseascotty9346
      @elseascotty9346 Год назад +3

      You guys should take up arms

    • @deztinii124
      @deztinii124 Год назад +11

      @@elseascotty9346 that wouldn’t help as Guyana is a third world country that’s already rampant with crime because people are so poor. Guns will never help that problem

    • @elseascotty9346
      @elseascotty9346 Год назад

      @@deztinii124 yeah they would create gangs start to sell weapons and guns and drugs builds a stronger economy how do you think they wars the US fought the import and export of cocaine makes everyone rich

    • @Sthmohtwenty
      @Sthmohtwenty Год назад

      So wdf the authority eg ..granger etc wasn't been investigated ....no one is perfect .......jagde0 done lots of good 4 d ppl.....

  • @Sreyz
    @Sreyz Год назад +33

    This is some real journalism.

  • @gwapodawkoanaakomama1734
    @gwapodawkoanaakomama1734 Год назад +4

    Damn, when Isobel asked the VP about his relationship with Su, every detail on his face and even the atmosphere changed.

    • @ceconk123
      @ceconk123 16 часов назад

      He is not a good liar lmao

  • @yungxshikaku666
    @yungxshikaku666 Год назад +308

    reporter: *mentions the name of a specific Chinese business man*
    VP: *immediately loses composure*
    LOL that boi was SHOOK

    • @mattmiller2842
      @mattmiller2842 Год назад +28

      You know you hit the weak point when they get staggered instantly.

    • @povertymustgo2121
      @povertymustgo2121 Год назад +3

      😂😂🤣🤣🤣

    • @coconeaux
      @coconeaux Год назад +3

      It was so uncomfortable to watch…

    • @subbox1
      @subbox1 Год назад +2

      @@coconeaux right?? I was recoiling

    • @selfieboss8462
      @selfieboss8462 Год назад

      Lol🤣🤣🤣

  • @kerncarter
    @kerncarter Год назад +1091

    Wow, I haven't seen a corrupt story unfold like this - with clear evidence and the exact people involved at the highest levels - in a long time (maybe never). This reporter is incredible. Investigative journalism at its best.

    • @chefantoniowooten6779
      @chefantoniowooten6779 Год назад

      What’s this journalist name?

    • @tanyawade5197
      @tanyawade5197 Год назад +8

      @@chefantoniowooten6779 Isabel is her 1st name. You have to go back to the beginning to see her full name onscreen.

    • @jaycqc8136
      @jaycqc8136 Год назад +5

      Same in Jamaica

    • @pepepantuflas1
      @pepepantuflas1 Год назад

      She could probably get killed for this

    • @anngore3842
      @anngore3842 Год назад +1

      @@jaycqc8136 jamaica needs real journalists, corruption rules!

  • @andretitus8186
    @andretitus8186 Год назад +9

    This is basically happening to every single county that is in the Caribbean. Corruption is everywhere.

  • @M3lch3zid3k
    @M3lch3zid3k Год назад +9

    As soon as she mentioned Su, the crook crumbled and started with the stammering...fell apart in real time. Betrayed his people for money; greed is one hell of a drug.

  • @just1it1moko
    @just1it1moko Год назад +294

    Isobel is such a BAMF! she literally went from interviewing the Taliban in Afghanistan to going to the front lines in Ukraine to exposing corruption in South america within a year time.
    Nothing but respect!

    • @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477
      @bayersbluebayoubioweapon8477 Год назад +23

      I hope she writes books someday, and if she has, I’d love to read it

    • @paceline
      @paceline Год назад +37

      I hope she's getting paid very well for putting her life on the line so often.

    • @Leel3ones89
      @Leel3ones89 Год назад +12

      I'm wondering how she was able to go undercover 🥸? I would think an international journalist like her would be found out kinda easily if they weren't so blinded by their greed. I understand that she was just the "secretary" but still, come on bad guys.

    • @Ludeboi420
      @Ludeboi420 Год назад +2

      Bamf??

    • @paceline
      @paceline Год назад +6

      @@Leel3ones89 She's like a real life James Bond.

  • @calenhartzenberg2410
    @calenhartzenberg2410 Год назад +378

    That su question caught him off guard 🤣 nice job vice

    • @cucumberishealthy9661
      @cucumberishealthy9661 Год назад +20

      I AM SCREAMING 🤣🤣🤣

    • @MahsinurRahmanLava
      @MahsinurRahmanLava Год назад +2

      best

    • @karmabhutia4171
      @karmabhutia4171 Год назад +1

      When

    • @nathangillingham5734
      @nathangillingham5734 Год назад +40

      "Unless you say who the person is I cannot comment on that"
      "OK what is your relationship with Su Jurong?"
      "Su-? Oh, Su? My relationship? uh-uh nothing he is a tenant in my place."

    • @jayrivii
      @jayrivii Год назад +14

      Su?! Su is the coffee boy.

  • @RuzzyID
    @RuzzyID Год назад +35

    My entire dads side is from Guyana, and seeing how badly corrupted this country is hurts me.
    I'd love to visit the country regularly, but it pains me to see this is what is happening to it and almost puts me off from visiting tbh.
    Respect to Isobel and the team though for taking a massive risk in doing this, obviously it's not a very safe country, and doing what they did is extremely dangerous but helpful.

    • @DarlyaFaroeste
      @DarlyaFaroeste Год назад

      Take my advice stay wherever you are, this country is extremely corrupt, the people mindset too is corrupt, they can't change their leaders mindset if they themselves practice unlawful things, I lived in this country already so i know how it is, they pull each other down like eolves, they do not enjoy seeing their counterparts succesful, greed and envy and division everywhere as they only vote based on color of the skin. No wonder your dad left…

  • @s0nic2nr
    @s0nic2nr 7 месяцев назад +3

    Thank you VICE for educating me about my country. This has been a real eye opener and I have shared it with my community. We need to take a stand and demand change

  • @Lovely-qq6if
    @Lovely-qq6if Год назад +3065

    Another masterpiece from Isobel Young, She never disappoints with every piece of journalism she makes despite the risks needed to be taken.

  • @hitmewithfreemusic7792
    @hitmewithfreemusic7792 Год назад +388

    Guyana is a small country with tons of resources but the people are living in dire conditions. Any politicians involved in corruption should be investigated and charged.

    • @soulfoodforthought9225
      @soulfoodforthought9225 Год назад +3

      I agree

    • @SpyFromMarsZeus
      @SpyFromMarsZeus Год назад +12

      Chile tried to bring up their people, and how did CIA react?

    • @56Hoperoad69
      @56Hoperoad69 Год назад +11

      Not much different than what we call lobbyists in US.

    • @merrett1990
      @merrett1990 Год назад +6

      This only been going on for years in Africa alsp

    • @lukemurray4950
      @lukemurray4950 Год назад

      You people are so brainwashed it's scary. This is literally what the USA does all over the world. It literally has overthrown and taken advantage of so many countries!!

  • @bibikarim1506
    @bibikarim1506 Год назад +20

    Greetings from United States!!!!! This has been the way for all Caribbean countries. excellent reporting, thank you for bringing this to the outside world. The people are starving in Guyana while everyone moves in to get rich. NO ONE IS MINDFUL OF ALL THE DAMAGES THAT WILL DONE , it will take years to fix the ecosystem . The entire world will feel the heat from this type of reckless and dangerous business , NEVER GOING TO GUYANA🙈

    • @tashasharma6535
      @tashasharma6535 4 месяца назад

      Sorry Guyanese people was never starving and would never starves.Those who starves , are those who look up the overhead to wait for money falling from the skies.We had bountiful food. Guyana is a country full of food. If you fold your hands always and every day you have a bird in the cage walking all over, definitely you will starve

  • @abcnt
    @abcnt Год назад +11

    Vice, this is some heavy stuff you guys filmed. Felt just like the early days of Vice. Keep it up!

  • @cawfaygweentea1596
    @cawfaygweentea1596 Год назад +494

    This probably won't get the recognition it deserves since Guyana is a small country, but the quality of journalism here is amazing.

    • @bazle64
      @bazle64 Год назад

      Obviously white journalists are protecting AmeriKKKa's imperialism

    • @rajeshupadhyay5683
      @rajeshupadhyay5683 Год назад +7

      Well said! I am also here to learn how to invest after listening to a lady on tv talk about the importance of investing and how she made 7 figure in 3 month, somehow the video taught me nothing and left me even more confused, I'm a newbie and I'm open to ideas on how to invest for retirement

    • @lezliewhicker8450
      @lezliewhicker8450 Год назад +10

      @@rajeshupadhyay5683Think long term, personally i ventured into the market so i won’t be stranded after i retire. A colleague of mine introduced me to CFA " Priscilla Dearmin-Turner " who drew out retirement plans and they all aligned with what i wanted and had to pick one plan and with her exit and entry strategies on commodities , securities and digital assets, my portfolio has really been diversified with good ROI. I am really impressed by how much i have achieved

    • @preciouschukwuma6114
      @preciouschukwuma6114 Год назад +3

      Financial management is a crucial topic that most tend to shy away from, and ends up haunting them in the near future

    • @davidhudson3001
      @davidhudson3001 Год назад +2

      Investment now will be wise but the truth is investing on your own will be a high risk. I think it will be best to get a professional👌

  • @lisaannvieira9225
    @lisaannvieira9225 Год назад +1223

    Incredible journalism. As a Guyanese I can say that Guyana has always been plagued with corruption on multiple levels and unfortunately I doubt that it will ever change as the people are used to it. A country filled with so many riches will continue to live in poverty.

    • @amazonwarrior7126
      @amazonwarrior7126 Год назад

      you sure you Guyanese or you pretending to be Guyanese? Guyana is not a poverty country but a middle income country so you are full of bullshit . This vice news is full of lies.

    • @anshumanpaul1985
      @anshumanpaul1985 Год назад +40

      Cost of Chinese friendship

    • @cashapark87s25
      @cashapark87s25 Год назад +6

      Basically...

    • @jimbean7652
      @jimbean7652 Год назад +20

      bunch of crooks in guyana and u would think it will get better with the oil coming but i doubt it

    • @elcapitane6397
      @elcapitane6397 Год назад +7

      At least they arent coming with ''democracy'' like some did in irak

  • @josephmaina1669
    @josephmaina1669 Год назад +26

    a master piece from VICE , hope you can do the same in Africa especially in Kenya where chinise have planted the greed deep. When you talked about Geopolitical string attached that hit me hard.

  • @willthorne5377
    @willthorne5377 Год назад +5

    A really great piece of reporting and good undercover work. Congrats to the Vice News team. Well told and clear. Keep up the good work.

  • @gilbertfranklin1537
    @gilbertfranklin1537 Год назад +892

    WOW!... She had that guy squirming, stuttering and double-talking like a puppet on a string! They played this sting operation like top notch pros all the way. Kudos to VICE News, one of the best in the entire world. Poor Guyana is playing way out of their league with China, and better be careful what they agree to.

    • @jeanpaulchristian3282
      @jeanpaulchristian3282 Год назад +21

      Yes, I wish she woukd investigate the Americans as well as Brown and Yellow people countries

    • @TheKrazykwasi
      @TheKrazykwasi Год назад

      @@jeanpaulchristian3282 the problem is white people tend to manage their hubris better. Why the H*ll is the VP so involved? Having meetings in his house, having interviews with reporters. Only when you truly see yourself as being above the law, you make those type of moves. And in developing countries the phrase “checks and balances” is only a myth.

    • @dylanc9174
      @dylanc9174 Год назад

      @@jeanpaulchristian3282 Why investigate the Americans? Isn't the corruption a lot worse with China? Investigating the Chinese is not racist as you claim it to be. It's just a much bigger story. And the American government gets exposed all the time. You just like China and are angry they are being exposed.

    • @dylanc9174
      @dylanc9174 Год назад +33

      @@jeanpaulchristian3282 It is strange as well, because her investigating is helping these "brown" countries. But you seem to have an allegiance towards elite Chinese. I don't understand your thinking, but you support modern day imperialism. Just like the British Raj.

    • @sweet44508
      @sweet44508 Год назад +13

      Lol his eyes were twitching from stress.

  • @bonafidesmooth
    @bonafidesmooth Год назад +1097

    As a born Guyanese, I could see this coming. Sad but we don't have the influence and power to keep what rightfully belongs to us. As always, love vice for telling these stories

    • @bigedfromny6037
      @bigedfromny6037 Год назад +22

      Strip mining and flooding of the forests. What a travesty.

    • @ronnellagreene5950
      @ronnellagreene5950 Год назад +28

      I agree wirh you...Foreigners will always come and enjoy what we're not..

    • @victorkalashnikov1866
      @victorkalashnikov1866 Год назад

      your government trap and trick with chyna so good luck

    • @gincream1993
      @gincream1993 Год назад +8

      @@bigedfromny6037 By foreigners

    • @andia968
      @andia968 Год назад +6

      @@ronnellagreene5950 they pay tax to guyana government , yes,no?

  • @eldrewski1692
    @eldrewski1692 Год назад +12

    Best episode yet. Be careful out there! People don't like when the truth comes out. This is the one time I've been amazed..especially by the end when you met with the VP. His reaction alone, he is so guilty. It's sad to think of the people living under this rule.

  • @mccian910
    @mccian910 Год назад +4

    I lived in Guyana as a diplomat. It is a very rough country. I learned to be thankful quickly. Every time I landed in Guyana or flew out. They'd always steal a t shirt or clothes out my luggage. Im so thankful to have lived more than anything lol

  • @nedkelly8553
    @nedkelly8553 Год назад +399

    Now THAT is how you do an interview. That guy's pausing and stuttering when she asked him about his friend who promised he can get anything done is priceless. Wow. Vice is so underrated as far as its journalism goes.

    • @TheSublimeLifestyle
      @TheSublimeLifestyle Год назад +12

      Nearly 8M subscribers, premium TV positions, and consistently referenced as a viable source for information for academia is far from underrated.

    • @Chris-ly2xc
      @Chris-ly2xc Год назад +8

      Even with all those points, Vice is still underrated. This piece was a masterpiece

    • @jkkmane
      @jkkmane Год назад

      Lol vice is not underrated. They’re a hit or miss. A lot of times it’s highly exaggerated which VIce is known for.

    • @adnanazix8217
      @adnanazix8217 Год назад

      the VP is a pathetic sociopath liar willing to leave guyana mired in poverty for his personal gain. not a young man why does he need such illicit sums.

    • @crowdedveins9210
      @crowdedveins9210 Год назад +1

      I’d rather give this journalist credit more than vice. Vice gets credit for giving interesting stories a platform.

  • @Keepitgoingjay
    @Keepitgoingjay Год назад +301

    It never ceases to amaze me how these politicians lie on camera, under oath, in interviews, to their friends and family, to their countrymen, even to the people they do secret business with. This is disgusting to watch.

    • @persimmon93
      @persimmon93 Год назад

      But you do realize that without corruption, progress is impossible. It is with bribes and incentives that politicians work with progressive legislatures. You may think politicians work with the sense of morality for the good of the public but it is money that buys them food to eat and a roof over their heads.

    • @mindfulnessorganix1588
      @mindfulnessorganix1588 Год назад +7

      Usa don't do that at all? Or any politicians their good people?

    • @mustertherohirrim7315
      @mustertherohirrim7315 Год назад +13

      Times it by 10million and you have the us of a.

    • @siobhan-rae
      @siobhan-rae Год назад +7

      you know you can be mad at both right?

    • @Emilgod
      @Emilgod Год назад

      to you not know what being a politician is?

  • @legendary678
    @legendary678 8 месяцев назад +2

    It's a shame but true, these politicians steal so much money they don't know how to spend it whilst the real Guyanese people who are the backbone of the economy have to suffer. Very thankful for this video and must commend you for your bravery and risking your life like that.

  • @jamiejudy553
    @jamiejudy553 10 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you for coming to Guyana and seeing the damage at first hand...

  • @BizzeeB
    @BizzeeB Год назад +366

    20:00 - Corrupt Politician: "I can't comment on these claims unless you give me specific names."
    Vice: Gives specific names
    Corrupt Politician: "Why you wanna bring poor countries down!?"

    • @underarmbowlingincidentof1981
      @underarmbowlingincidentof1981 Год назад +87

      his reaction to the specific name is just priceless... the face of a man exposed.

    • @kendellharris7680
      @kendellharris7680 Год назад +72

      My boy got caught in in 4k ultra HD. When he paused and started to stutter I knew he was lying 🤣😂

    • @thinkcasting3182
      @thinkcasting3182 Год назад

      Ambush journalism. Given all possible alternatives, show me how the VP is not doing the best possible work for his country. She failed to do that and because of that you can tell that she is an ambush journalist with a clear agenda. Paid $$$ by the Pentagram to destroy a government official in a foreign land.
      At the end of the day WGAS?? China wins because they know how to do International business. Hint, hint Americans: they leave their guns and bombs at home....

    • @hardsurface6277
      @hardsurface6277 Год назад +23

      When he started stuttering.. that’s when truth stands clear from error

    • @povertymustgo2121
      @povertymustgo2121 Год назад +1

      @@kendellharris7680 😂😂😂🤣

  • @Samehope
    @Samehope Год назад +667

    As a Guyaneese my self , this was amazing coverage of what is really happening in Guyana and is a clear representation of what happens all over the world especially so in underdeveloped countries. Great job. His face when you mentioned that names was priceless. The undercover recording of them talking in his house should have been made public and leaked to all other news outlets to prove his involvement and knowledge of the under the table dealings. All in all a well put together reporting.

    • @krto7663
      @krto7663 Год назад +8

      What are people doing about it? Remember that you are still south American and colombia, ecuador had successful nationwide protests that messed up their govs. Can a big protest in guyana change this?

    • @Western_Decline
      @Western_Decline Год назад

      the US and western civilization have pillaged latin America for centuries.
      Now, they use CIA funded VICE media for these shameless games

    • @lukemurray4950
      @lukemurray4950 Год назад +9

      This is nothing but propaganda. All you need to do is look what America does around the world and even in Guyana!

    • @cc23001
      @cc23001 Год назад +30

      @@lukemurray4950 how is it propaganda is it's the truth?

    • @cc23001
      @cc23001 Год назад +3

      Yeah, this is making those conversations public

  • @jmdjasonday
    @jmdjasonday Год назад +4

    20:52 This is fantastic investigative journalism. Thank you for doing this.

  • @matthiasfsa
    @matthiasfsa Год назад +12

    I don't always agree with VICE, but I have to admit this was masterful. Keep up uncovering corruption wherever you may find it!

  • @ryactionary
    @ryactionary Год назад +733

    This is the kinda undeniable quality investigative journalism that in some circumstances can get people 'suicided' or straight up agent murdered. I'm sure it's been done for less. Huge courage to plan and execute the exposé on these corrupt individuals. Thank you for pursuing this cause, it's really in the public interest

    • @dylanc9174
      @dylanc9174 Год назад

      @Jack Smith I hate you too China. Taiwan is a country.

    • @dylanc9174
      @dylanc9174 Год назад

      @CALL IT IT IS We all know what China is doing to extend its fingers, but showing how it works is difficult. And she may have prevented Guyana from becoming a Chinese puppet state, if it isn't already.

    • @sonjalivingston8241
      @sonjalivingston8241 Год назад +20

      @CALL IT IT IS troll

    • @idhatemet00
      @idhatemet00 Год назад +12

      @CALL IT IT IS what people assume doesn't equal hard proof which is exactly what this piece provided...

    • @Rom2Serge
      @Rom2Serge Год назад +1

      At least China is helping people to rise standards of living.
      On other side reporting girl from colonialist country who were exploring millions on people do hundreds of years.

  • @yokit448
    @yokit448 Год назад +88

    You caught him off guard. Job well done

  • @lyl8260
    @lyl8260 Год назад

    THanks for report

  • @koolramon2214
    @koolramon2214 Год назад +4

    This is just horrible our country has been dealing with corruption forever and this shows that it always start with those at the top what a shame and disgrace

  • @Mygoditsfullofstars
    @Mygoditsfullofstars Год назад +126

    The reaction at 20:00 next level.

    • @isunlloaoll
      @isunlloaoll Год назад +17

      He's craping his pants on camera.

    • @therula1101
      @therula1101 Год назад +20

      Su?....ooh Su?🤣

    • @cmel4636
      @cmel4636 Год назад +2

      I need someone to make a meme about his face 🤣😂🤣

  • @tuyetchu2943
    @tuyetchu2943 Год назад +581

    This is truly the definition of journalism. Well done Vice! Thanks for all the courage and hard-work of all the people involved in the process of bringing truth to life.

    • @kjellv2112
      @kjellv2112 Год назад +8

      If now she would report on the corruption/situations in the USA/EU. That would be the definition of journalism..

    • @michaeljoseph3528
      @michaeljoseph3528 Год назад

      I hope they made it out alive.

    • @lauralishes1
      @lauralishes1 Год назад

      The NYT and Washington Post have been reporting on this for 3 years. How do you think she knew?

    • @richpryor9650
      @richpryor9650 Год назад +1

      @@kjellv2112 They do, you just don't pay attention.

    • @resortsman
      @resortsman Год назад

      They are covering only one side of the problem, I think. The other side is why there is such a level of corruption in the former colonies. And the truth is, that the former colonizers needed the support of corruptible local officials in their era. And after the decolonization these corrupt local elites were those who came into power. So the culture of corruption was in fact brought by the former colonizers, because systemic corruption was needed to rule the country against its people. And many of these corrupt officials are elected. Why do people vote for them? Because they simply have the right connections to rule the system and candidates who would like to play fair are eliminated.

  • @kriskooblall4306
    @kriskooblall4306 Год назад +7

    I wish to commend Isobel Yeung, the reporter and Michael Learmonth, Editor in Chief of VICE News on the production and airing of this short documentary video on corruption in Guyana.
    I am a Canadian citizen born in British Guiana and lived there for more than 4 decades and fought against the institutionalized corruption in my nativeland.
    The information uncovered in this video is consistent with what I have experienced and know to be accurate.
    Guyana is an English speaking relatively small nation of approx. three quarters of a million in an area approx.. 83,000 square miles that was previously colonized by the Dutch and subsequently the British from whom it acquired it’s independence on May 26th, 1966.
    The English speaking nation therefore has a rich history of slavery and indentureship with the two main ethnic groups being East Indians and Africans in a ethnic and cultural mosaic of six in total.

  • @shtookaralph5205
    @shtookaralph5205 Год назад +21

    I love Isobel Young for her reporting ! The Uyighur investigation she has done was amazing, a few years later, the UN finally acknowledged the existence of torture, concentration camps etc...
    What's saddening is that Bharrat Jagdeo has the audacity to tell Isobel that there is small corruption in his country, while he is the number one person responsible of the corruption, most hindus are corrupt anywhere they go, US, Canada etc.. it's in the roots.

  • @kyledodge5513
    @kyledodge5513 Год назад +1073

    This has to be THE BEST piece of actual, God's honest, pure, reporting and investigating I have ever seen! God bless you guys, PROMOTE THIS WOMAN! She earned it.

    • @WoahthereIan
      @WoahthereIan Год назад +23

      Give it a break with the religious stuff yeesh

    • @simeydotme
      @simeydotme Год назад +13

      Vice been doing the hard work recently! Their piece on XinJiang and Ukraine was excellent too

    • @davidcolclasure23
      @davidcolclasure23 Год назад +14

      @@WoahthereIan Whoa there Ian! Some people come from a religious background and that’s part of their speech. Skate, don’t hate bro. 😂

    • @WoahthereIan
      @WoahthereIan Год назад +5

      @@davidcolclasure23 GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD KEEP YOU IN THE HOLIEST, YABADOOOYABADEE JESUS CAME DOWN AND BLESSED THIS COMMENT DAVID YEEEEEEYEE

    • @shabanausman3353
      @shabanausman3353 Год назад +2

      @@simeydotme
      For the Ukraine issue
      It's not black and white as the US is painting it

  • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
    @Homer-OJ-Simpson Год назад +486

    Okay, Isobel Young, this is perhaps the best investigative reporting I've seen in a long time. I can't imagine how this will not win some major awards in investigative journalism.

    • @getthegoods420
      @getthegoods420 Год назад +5

      Journalists talking to foreign leaders like they are prosecutors in a court room is not good reporting and it's not good for foreign relationships.

    • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
      @Homer-OJ-Simpson Год назад

      @@getthegoods420 can you expand on this? We see this all the time in the US where they pressure the president to answer questions about allegations such as Donald T on his false claims of election interference or his impeachments or with Obama on Snowden.

    • @getthegoods420
      @getthegoods420 Год назад +6

      Ya they only did this with Trump.
      They never talked to Obama or Biden or even George bush this way.

    • @Homer-OJ-Simpson
      @Homer-OJ-Simpson Год назад

      @@getthegoods420 Biden hasn’t given many direct interviews but Obama was certainly grilled on a few topics but the most was the fallout of Snowdens reveal. He was pressed about how it was unconstitutional. I’m not sure you why you think he wasn’t but at least you agree Donald T was treated the same for committing crimes just like Guyana leader.

    • @ruoyuli4091
      @ruoyuli4091 Год назад

      Isobel yeung is partner with a BBC executive, basically the an extension of the C.I.A This is pure propaganda.

  • @pinnacle99
    @pinnacle99 Год назад +2

    Please create a piece on Jamaica’s business dealings with China as well.

  • @moccisimo
    @moccisimo Год назад +3

    Developing countries deserve a sincere leader who will guide the people and county to success while preserving them and their culture. Outside bribery from foreigners will always lead to corruption and dismissal of their wellbeing 😢

  • @bastienm.2709
    @bastienm.2709 Год назад +1473

    This is literally one of the best pieces of investigative journalism in Guyana’s political history, and we get it for free on a 20 min RUclips video . Vice is coming back
    Edit: by vice is coming back I mean I’ve seen a lot of videos of bad stuff I already know about: like roe vs wade and janurary 6 and gun control. Or it’s a special on a MDMA rave festival in Amsterdam. I miss this type of content from vice.

    • @rihasanatrofolo2472
      @rihasanatrofolo2472 Год назад +53

      Vice has always been good

    • @no_one_u_know4287
      @no_one_u_know4287 Год назад +29

      Lmao I love how she names one person and he’s shocked and plays dumb 😂

    • @baverfjant
      @baverfjant Год назад +37

      Vice never left. Isobel Yeung and her colleagues have been producing amazing content like this non-stop.

    • @ramdas363
      @ramdas363 Год назад +12

      That Vice President interview is like straight out of a British comedy sketch.
      For being such a relatively small country, surprisingly I've heard it's very corrupt from multiple different sources over the years. Basically rainforest, oil and corruption - that seems to be what it's famous for internationally.
      Hopefully they can get it under control and kick politicians like that VP out. With all the oil that Guyana has now, it has the potential to be a comfortable and wealthy place if the funds are just distributed fairly among all Guyanese citizens.

    • @thefumexxl
      @thefumexxl Год назад +6

      Keep an eye on their channel, They've had almost daily hard hitting stories over the last 3 years.

  • @dinamush1342
    @dinamush1342 Год назад +310

    As a Guyanese living here for 17 years I am happy that someone is finally bringing these issues to light so that the systematic corruption we face here is one step closer to being eradicated. Truly remarkable, thank you.

    • @rustymugg9658
      @rustymugg9658 Год назад +4

      It will take the destruction of humans for anything good to happen on this GOD forsaken place. What a horrible world we live in.

    • @rustymugg9658
      @rustymugg9658 Год назад

      The really sad part is China does shoddy work, so it'll all be collapsing. If they do it their country how do you think they're treating Africans.

    • @Dkthearn
      @Dkthearn Год назад

      @@rustymugg9658 Don't give up hope bro That's exactly what they want Right now they're pushing eugenics again be careful that plays exactly into their hand

    • @Genesis-ux6gb
      @Genesis-ux6gb Год назад

      Jagdeo is as corrupt as he is bald.

    • @abilab1735
      @abilab1735 Год назад

      Same things happen in Indonesia at multisectors. Hope they could done those investigation here. :(

  • @fynngachter7758
    @fynngachter7758 Год назад +4

    This is by far one of the best journalistsic piece of this year. Very well done journalism. Risking your lives to literally take down a gouvernment and china.

  • @samcresswell518
    @samcresswell518 Год назад +5

    Having been in Guyana recently, I wonder if the Chinese businesses at the Brazilian border were also involved in money laundering. There were multiple enormous Chinese warehouses in this tiny border town, all full of the same goods but completely empty of customers. Nobody seemed to know how they were actually making money, but they apparently paid no tax due to a special deal with the government.

    • @DarlyaFaroeste
      @DarlyaFaroeste Год назад +1

      Yes and they do go the bars and Gamble away their monies, those ware houses scare the heck out of me, I had lived there a while… something illegal is going on with those people, also their warehouses is heavily guarded with pitbull dogs…

  • @Mech610
    @Mech610 Год назад +48

    The moment she mentioned Su Zhi Rong to Jagdeo his face went completely flat and he started stuttering. It was like watching that moment in a damn movie when the smiling, amiable villain gets exposed. That was incredible.

  • @ygtredo4958
    @ygtredo4958 Год назад +51

    The reaction of the VP when asked about knowing Su was priceless lol

    • @Jan-xf8sk
      @Jan-xf8sk Год назад +3

      Corrupt boi got caught in 4k Ultra HD

    • @711jastin
      @711jastin Год назад +1

      @@Jan-xf8sk not really, it's 1080p max lmfao

    • @snsn7251
      @snsn7251 Год назад +2

      This video needs to be used to take him to court for breaches to human rights plus corruption. He needs to be under the jail. Just evil

    • @Jan-xf8sk
      @Jan-xf8sk Год назад +1

      @@711jastin just an exaggeration lol

  • @alephthiago
    @alephthiago Год назад +4

    This is one of the best investigative pieces i have ever seem about south america and chinese corruption, nice job guys

  • @kalim3114
    @kalim3114 Год назад +2

    Go go vice. Iv always admired vice for the channel n content. They kill it

  • @zacnic8726
    @zacnic8726 Год назад +84

    Haha... It's Business... European and American did it long time ago and now Chinese are taking over... Different people, same concept... Nobody is innocent only locals suffer..

    • @gc4161
      @gc4161 Год назад

      You want to be under them ??

    • @sharwama992
      @sharwama992 Год назад

      @@gc4161 empires come and go if rather be under the Chinese the west uses bullets the Chinese use bribes

    • @nothinghappenedatpearlharb7426
      @nothinghappenedatpearlharb7426 Год назад +9

      @@gc4161 is that what he said?

    • @zacnic8726
      @zacnic8726 Год назад +19

      @@gc4161 😂 under who? Any tyrant regardless of colour is a tyrant… in US there’s gangster and mafia, so does in China or Africa… same 💩 different colour…

    • @myleshagar9722
      @myleshagar9722 Год назад +2

      @@zacnic8726 Canadian mining companies are totally different, not sure how, but they are certainly better.

  • @michellelugo8951
    @michellelugo8951 Год назад +865

    This is an amazing piece of journalism. To see a person’s reaction to the truth first hand is brilliant. We’re so use to seeing body’s of government slowly attempt to bring these crooks to justice and by the time they force them to testify, if it even gets to that, they have been trained to deny it all and play “dumb.” The reaction at 20:00 was so raw that I wish we could catch more of these corrupt politicians and business people in their lies without warning. You go VICE!!

    • @colorsofsound4782
      @colorsofsound4782 Год назад +53

      yes, I had to laugh at the reaction. She went in raw without lube and he wasn't expecting that

    • @EEVOL
      @EEVOL Год назад +32

      It was damning to see his reaction when his bluff was called. Isobel is just truly amazing at what she has achieved with Vice.

    • @lasafi
      @lasafi Год назад +17

      Nothing will happen its Guyana

    • @TennisGvy
      @TennisGvy Год назад +26

      I was cracking up at 20:12. "Su? Su, oh Su. Yeah he's a uh tenant in my uh building"

    • @earthscrust9092
      @earthscrust9092 Год назад +1

      Yes

  • @WillieJeng
    @WillieJeng 11 месяцев назад +1

    I started played this video for background noise, I definitely did not expect all of that

  • @claudiefurgus3981
    @claudiefurgus3981 Год назад

    Toronto in the house. Love this exposé. Will be sharing. Great job.

  • @JAYP_1123
    @JAYP_1123 Год назад +144

    I’ve been hearing so much about the corruption in Guyana from my family. This video is pure validation.

    • @graycat7704
      @graycat7704 Год назад +10

      Me too. The race war going there as well.

    • @kiliandervaux6675
      @kiliandervaux6675 Год назад

      Of course there is a lot of corruption. Otherwise the state would keep the Guyanian gold for itself. Thank to a reserve in gold, they would be able to borrow money from international banks and slowly invest in their economy. But I guess China corrupts these political leaders so that they can take the gold (I'm not blaming them though, I would do the same)

    • @LucasDimoveo
      @LucasDimoveo Год назад +1

      ​@@graycat7704 is that still going on?

    • @David-og7di
      @David-og7di Год назад

      you have been hearing about Chinese funded corruption Han

    • @David-og7di
      @David-og7di Год назад

      @@graycat7704 no race war.....an economic war funded by a large C....ountry

  • @alfthai
    @alfthai Год назад +746

    This was amazing. Whenever Vice does on-the-ground or investigative journalism, it is absolutely amazing.

    • @thinkcasting3182
      @thinkcasting3182 Год назад +2

      So... The Pentagon wants the VP of Guyana gone. Enter Vice "news".....

    • @neddymerrill
      @neddymerrill Год назад +2

      Their whole business model is producing the aesthetics of independent, "on-the-ground" journalism.

    • @levelazn
      @levelazn Год назад

      its a c.i.a funded hit job on chinese people doing business. the goal is to soften up public opinion to engage a war in the asian pacific

    • @rawlinmangraofficial5862
      @rawlinmangraofficial5862 Год назад

      It's lies and fraud

    • @CastaFilms
      @CastaFilms Год назад

      Became they suck they life out of them for a few years and then get new ones

  • @phil_helix1191
    @phil_helix1191 Год назад +1

    Amazing reporting wow. Thanks for the insane work Vice

  • @nikainielsen2424
    @nikainielsen2424 Год назад +2

    seriously one of the best undercover journalist works I've seen

  • @FluidityFPV
    @FluidityFPV Год назад +201

    I've never seen a more guilty face and response in my entire life. His reaction to them knowing about Mr. Su was pure comedy.🤣

    • @kap849
      @kap849 Год назад +9

      21:38 he will definitely investigate and ask around. I guess he'll go home ask himself questions and investigate himself 😂. This is gold!

  • @kookiebts899world_wide_ban3
    @kookiebts899world_wide_ban3 Год назад +353

    As a Guyanese, it bothers me with what is going on in this country. I hope it gets known more in the world

    • @jessicasteenbergen8246
      @jessicasteenbergen8246 Год назад +6

      I truly feel for you all, but most lickely it will be ignored as always, besides nobody dares touching China

    • @josephroo7060
      @josephroo7060 Год назад +1

      @@jessicasteenbergen8246 Yellow Fever ??? LOL

    • @jessicasteenbergen8246
      @jessicasteenbergen8246 Год назад +1

      @@josephroo7060 hahaha good one

    • @cosmoray9750
      @cosmoray9750 Год назад

      @@jessicasteenbergen8246 Who was there before China went there to make deals ? 🤔
      Who dominated central and South America ? What did Biden said in this video ?
      It is not a America thing nor is it a China thing.
      Nothing personal. It is Corrupt then as it is Corrupt now.
      This so called report has a lot of anonymous people and allegations but no solid evidence.

    • @jessicasteenbergen8246
      @jessicasteenbergen8246 Год назад

      @@cosmoray9750 Oh without a doubt is it corrupt, but these countries do get exploited because of what they have and the people never benefit from it

  • @Haitigoodtimes11
    @Haitigoodtimes11 7 месяцев назад

    great interviewer who took on the VP, well done and hard hitting.

  • @charleschamorro3379
    @charleschamorro3379 10 часов назад

    The hidden camera conversations are hilarious! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @lordjael
    @lordjael Год назад +240

    This is just unparalleled journalism right here. Goodness gracious how brave one has to be to not only go in that deeply undercover, but then to actually EXPOSE it. Regardless of the danger that may be involved as a result of it. Kudos to the leaders, editors, cameramen, journalists, and staff at Vice. Just incredible.

  • @ShaudaySmith
    @ShaudaySmith Год назад +127

    This is some AMAZING exposé journalism. Way to ask the hard questions, being bold and accurate with true, first sources.

  • @dhanraj7523
    @dhanraj7523 Год назад +3

    Guyana 🇬🇾 must set rules and regulations and laws to protect it resources and avoid dumping waste and protect the land . Environmental protection against dumping toxic substances. Safety is number one priority. Government please look into this matter now. Thanks.

  • @st012m
    @st012m Год назад +5

    Isobel is one of the best reporters out there. She constantly puts her well-being on the line to report and expose atrocities and ppl taken advantage of.

  • @lukea2052
    @lukea2052 Год назад +234

    There’s still people risking their all to uncover truth. Kudos to the reporter and the team

    • @TheJustina102085
      @TheJustina102085 Год назад

      A lot less these days so I’m happy to see it! Most journos are trying to convince us that Hunter Biden laptop is still Russian propaganda..

    • @indras3560
      @indras3560 Год назад

      Whose TRUTH

    • @ruoyuli4091
      @ruoyuli4091 Год назад

      Isobel yeung is partner with a BBC executive, basically the an extension of the C.I.A This is pure propaganda.

    • @JohnSmith-ct4et
      @JohnSmith-ct4et Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/VTQ91werzk8/видео.html

  • @blankname44
    @blankname44 Год назад +136

    Honestly one of the best undercover investigations I've seen, journalism at its finest.

    • @ruoyuli4091
      @ruoyuli4091 Год назад

      Isobel yeung is partner with a BBC executive, basically the an extension of the C.I.A This is pure propaganda.

    • @rbrookeb
      @rbrookeb Год назад +2

      She’s got BALLS. That one on one with the VP had me like 🫢🫡🤯 amazing work!

  • @hikki6478
    @hikki6478 Год назад +1

    He couldn't hide his surprise when she mentioned Mr. Su, that took balls, great work Isobel.

  • @TheKayleeanna
    @TheKayleeanna Год назад +3

    This was excellent journalism! With 1 story she was able to get heads of 2 countries (1 of them a world superpower) shaking in their boots. Bravo and well done!

  • @trangnguyen-tj7nb
    @trangnguyen-tj7nb Год назад +103

    I thought it was just another undercover showing documentary at first - didnt think you guy had the ball to confront the vice president and seriously made a huge impact like this to the worlds political game . this is seriously amazing! wish it could happen in the us too !

  • @maliceintended
    @maliceintended Год назад +218

    This is definitely award winning material and a must see for every Guyanese...People of Guyana! It's time to grow some cajones, stand up and fight for your your land and it's resources. Don't let these greedy corrupt politicians continue to play you.😩

    • @proudmullet
      @proudmullet Год назад +7

      cojones* (cajones means drawers)

    • @maliceintended
      @maliceintended Год назад +5

      @@proudmullet Ok Officer Wordsearch!!....It's also the slang for "Balls"/"Testicles"😩 "Cojones"/" Cajones".... I chose the "a" instead of the "o".😩 What you gonna do... arrest me?!!🙄

    • @AlexRodriguez-ue1xc
      @AlexRodriguez-ue1xc Год назад +1

      🤦🤣

    • @rotyler2177
      @rotyler2177 Год назад +2

      @@maliceintended The grammar Police have been deployed.

    • @pascalguerandel2771
      @pascalguerandel2771 Год назад +1

      Once again destroying the environment and then the people will not even get the money it'll be going to the corrupt officials this planet is doomed.

  • @andyl6463
    @andyl6463 Год назад +1

    节目真棒!

  • @artursarturs9783
    @artursarturs9783 Год назад +1

    VP face about friendship with Su told it all! 😂 Nice work! Be the voice for voiceless!

  • @songuite6317
    @songuite6317 Год назад +31

    20:08 That hit him hard 😂😂

  • @SherrainePhillips
    @SherrainePhillips Год назад +112

    Well done Isobel 👏🏾 As a Jamaican who has lived in china for many years this was lovely to see. The same is happening in Jamaica sadly. Excellent piece

    • @laughingbird
      @laughingbird Год назад +7

      Very true! Jamaica got to stop selling out.

    • @diegoflores9237
      @diegoflores9237 Год назад

      Let me put this out there "The CIA helped overthrow the former leftist government of Jamaica through a process of 'destabilization' and a campaign of violence". This is just one act done by the west against Jamaica of many since the Spanish came and wiped out native Jamaicans. You were saying about China.....

  • @ChadLangford-US
    @ChadLangford-US Год назад

    Really great coverage of this

  • @wealthiness
    @wealthiness Год назад +2

    He pissed himself when she said Su 🤣

  • @snazhound5827
    @snazhound5827 Год назад +77

    I lived in Guyana, I was married to a Guyanese woman. I met most of the government senior officials including Jagdeo. I was offered a job to work with him, I am an electrical engineer and former infantry officer. I personally witnessed the former president, now vice president doing a deal to steal millions of aid money from the Canadian International Development Agency. Every police officer and every government official in Guyana is corrupt. I remember a meeting with the minister of the interior to arrange for machinery from Canada to be shipped to Guyana, the minister didn't even bother to hide or obfuscate the request for a bribe. He said that the money must be cash, either in US Dollars , Euros, Pounds or Canadian Dollars. He took a box from his right desk drawer and from the $50,000 Canadian, he put a portion in the box and the rest in his pocket. He said this was for the President and Prime Minister. I remember meeting a corrupt Panamian official who was with the World Bank. At this long tedious boxing extravaganza with all these government officials including the President, Vice President, the Prime Minister and the cabinet, the President was doing a drug deal with the Panamian official. Envelopes and cash bundles were right in the open. When I left Guyana the last time, a customs official stole 500 Canadian Dollars and 200 US dollars from me at gunpoint right at the old Timehri airport terminal. He tried to steal my wedding ring as well. I actually grabbed the barrel of what looked like a 357 magnum with a 8 inch barrel. It wasn't loaded. Then two soldiers with old British 9mm Sterling L3 sub machine guns grabbed me an hussled me to my aircraft on the runway. I can also tell stories about how suddenly the bridge crossing the Demarara River is suddenly closed just for foreigners, unless of course you pay the "tax" to "open" the bridge. They refused to recognize my international drivers licence, and I had to pay $500 in Canadian currency to get my drivers licence. The excuse was that my brand new land rover needed a better paint job, therefore it really was a fine. There were decapitated security guards because they didn't accept bribes, most likely drug smugglers and the corrupt police and army. All the senior and junior government officials I met were involved in the drug smuggling business. I remember an advisor to the "uncorruptable" President talking to me when the Prime Minister was present about how they were arranging drug and gold shipments to New York City. The Presidential advisor and the Prime Minister said openly about how to use diplomatic immunity to smuggle the gold and drugs into the US. Now for a really hilarious bit, one fellow I met showed me pictures of the decapitated head of a former President in a glass box. It was shipped to Russia to put in some sort of museum where they have preserved heads of different heroes of the Communist and Marxist Revolution. This fellow made the box for the government because he had a custom glass repair business. Check this out yourself, this museum really existed. At this tedious boxing extravaganza, the wife of the President was wearing a really big golden snake torc with what looked like huge sapphires for the eyes. She adjusted it and it slipped off her arm, I went and picked it to be polite and help her, and a big black police guard grabbed me and hit me and threw me to the floor and started kicking me. Meanwhile I still had the snake torc, and I ended up twisting it out of shape. The gold was so pure, it was very easy to bend it back to fit her. She motioned for the policeman to take the torc from me. She never said anything to me and just turned and walked away. I remember being at the home of the aforementioned Presidential advisor, he opened a huge safe and started grabbing stacks of US currency and filled his briefcase completely with this cash. He was travelling to New York with his diplomatic passport. I can describe lots more about that hellhole. Cheers from Canada.

    • @AlxndrHQ
      @AlxndrHQ Год назад +7

      Sheesh!

    • @dreamer6508
      @dreamer6508 Год назад +8

      How did you make it out alive, remember the congressman who was killed in Jonestown

    • @snazhound5827
      @snazhound5827 Год назад +9

      @@dreamer6508 I was in Guyana right after that. The twin turbo prop aircraft where the three congressional investigators and the pilot were ambushed and killed was a wreck on the side of the runway. Where you go from the runway to the terminal building, there were bullet holes from machine gun fire all along the walls. I actually bought a short wave radio from an American survivor of the Kool-Aid extravaganza. I still have some recruitment brochures for Jonestown I picked up. Also I ended up catching a lot of parasites, Malaria and Dengue Fever. I was lucky to not get AIDS, when I was getting a Yellow Fever booster at the only hospital in the country, a Seventh Day Adventist hospital, they just rinsed the needles in warm water and reused them. There was only power on 12 hours on 12 hours off, depending on what part of Georgetown you were in. Two of our guys caught Hemophilia, about 10 of us got Dengue Fever. Do not be tempted to ever go to that sh*thole. Cheers from Canada.

    • @yurichtube1162
      @yurichtube1162 Год назад

      South America is a rogue town.

    • @themidwestfishkeeper8117
      @themidwestfishkeeper8117 Год назад +9

      You need to write a book, podcast, blog or videos of your these story’s that is absolutely insane the things you went through! Especially the head in the glass box !

  • @gustavod.6034
    @gustavod.6034 Год назад +75

    Wow! Beautiful reporting. The Vice President almost choked on his own saliva when asking about Su. Thanks for all this hard work Vice.

  • @nishithgupta1925
    @nishithgupta1925 Год назад

    That confrontation is epic.

  • @turtle2470
    @turtle2470 5 месяцев назад +1

    VP seemed to hesitate when Leung said Su's name 😂

  • @wearywanderer
    @wearywanderer Год назад +107

    This brilliant piece of investigatory journalism needs to be applauded! The folks on the ground are doing this with great personal risk.
    It’s so depressing to see the leader of a small country with so much potential willing to partake in the exploitation of the land at the expense of his own fellow citizens all for personal benefit that will only last for one person’s lifetime.

    • @bhikanramnarine4478
      @bhikanramnarine4478 Год назад +1

      Good journalism I would like you to interview the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.

    • @luiscampos1164
      @luiscampos1164 Год назад

      Nothing new! Chiquita Banana, former United Fruit Company along with the USA government took control of local governments by corruption and participated in exploitation and contamination in many countries around the world.

  • @qayray
    @qayray Год назад +185

    This is huge. If our world wasn’t so completely crazy in so many ways at the moment, this would be one of the biggest news stories out there.
    Thank you VICE. Thank you Isobel.

    • @mikevalentine8369
      @mikevalentine8369 Год назад

      Great point

    • @billyballsup2685
      @billyballsup2685 Год назад

      The world is not crazy. Only the rich, politicians, and brain dead sheep are crazy. There's actually very few that aren't.

    • @jlee4768
      @jlee4768 Год назад +1

      It is not that huge when you realize this has been happening already to so many other developing nations, both previously AND currently. Textbook Chinese colonialism.

    • @pepelepew1227
      @pepelepew1227 Год назад +3

      it's happening everywhere. oil, agriculture and all sorts of mining. even america's foreign corrupt practices act made exemptions if competitors are also involved in the bribing game.

    • @raulmelo5881
      @raulmelo5881 Год назад

      @@jlee4768 lol Chinese colonialism? 😭 these countries are corrupt , all countries are corrupt, they’re literally developing the country while the west just extracts wealth but doesn’t develop anything 😭 cmon if u want that to change u need to change the Capitalist system we live in

  • @dougaxio9923
    @dougaxio9923 Год назад +1

    We need a government corruption investigation like that one in Trinidad 🇹🇹.

  • @anandbee1226
    @anandbee1226 8 месяцев назад

    The corruption in Guyana is from the government sectors down to the police service, people in Guyana and visiting guyanese from overseas countries who fled the country due to endemic corruption have to bribe to get some thing done or get out of charges.

  • @hermitage6439
    @hermitage6439 Год назад +89

    This will make a huge impact on whats to come, I can see this as being one of the largest journalistic pieces in a while. I myself did not know much about the plight of Guyana and it's people but this is important, because without the fauna and flora of that country the whole world may just collapse further. And this time literally.

  • @bellzfilms
    @bellzfilms Год назад +360

    I can't stress enough how impressed I am with the wonderful job done by everyone who has made this piece possible. Thank you for your service 🙏

    • @RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr
      @RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr Год назад

      Umm this is anti-China propaganda, the USA and others are doing far worse damage and engaging in far bigger corruption for deals worth 10s of Billions of dollars if not 100s of billions all around South America. The entire continent has been intentionally destabilized due to it's enormous wealth of resources.

    • @MileeSimmon-db8ub
      @MileeSimmon-db8ub Год назад

      An Amerindian man plus USA news reporter

  • @yilakasefa860
    @yilakasefa860 7 месяцев назад

    This woman has is the definition of getting to the bottom of things

  • @jesseparedes5078
    @jesseparedes5078 Год назад +2

    Vice news knocks it out the park once again. Keep up the great stories coming.

  • @darianramkhalawan3098
    @darianramkhalawan3098 Год назад +216

    Thank you so much for publishing this documentary. Shared this with my family that are from Guyana.

    • @janiceshepherd3346
      @janiceshepherd3346 Год назад +16

      Darian what did your parents had to say when you shared it with them?
      I am curious

    • @thinkcasting3182
      @thinkcasting3182 Год назад

      @@janiceshepherd3346 If his parents had any good sense they'd welcome the Chinese businessmen. The alternative is getting invaded and bombed by Americans or NATO, millions killed and everything stolen.

    • @HeadhuntexGamer
      @HeadhuntexGamer Год назад

      @@janiceshepherd3346 It's Western propaganda to make China look bad

    • @LucasDimoveo
      @LucasDimoveo Год назад

      ​@@janiceshepherd3346 most Guyanese people don't trust the government so I don't think this is going to be surprising

    • @quantummechanics990
      @quantummechanics990 Год назад

      Yh I’m curious too

  • @drojasmusic
    @drojasmusic Год назад +228

    What a fantastic piece of journalism! Isobel and team are doing such incredible work. I wish this made it into mainstream media... but oh well. Thank you Vice!

    • @kirkslayden834
      @kirkslayden834 Год назад

      That's why on all this news you see on TV is all fake they don't know the real stories but now we have cameras and we expose the evil in this world God bless

    • @hoalanho
      @hoalanho Год назад +1

      yea, why isn't Isabel more well known and all over the major networks?

    • @colexovitch
      @colexovitch Год назад

      They’re all carrying water for China themselves.

  • @khumbomwandira5008
    @khumbomwandira5008 Год назад

    Wow,this is really nice. A big thumbs up to the crew. Keep it up!

  • @lindonfrederickbrutus9741
    @lindonfrederickbrutus9741 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for bringing this I find the reporting very interesting and informative and I am of the view that it's 💯 percent true.thank you.