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Simon Reeve visits a settlement in South America, where groceries can be paid for with gold!
Simon Reeve journeys through the remote and little-visited northeast of the continent, from the spectacular tabletop mountain Mount Roraima in Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
This section of the earth’s crust is known as the Guiana Shield and contains the most unspoiled area of rainforest anywhere in the world. In Venezuela, Simon meets some of the thousands of migrants fleeing the economic collapse of their country, an ongoing and underreported humanitarian crisis.
In neighbouring Guyana, the only English-speaking country on the continent, he visits an incredibly remote settlement in the depths of the jungle and learns that the country could be on the verge of its own oil boom.
In Suriname, Simon has an unforgettable and surreal encounter with Ronnie Brunswijk, the gun-toting former warlord who is now one of Suriname’s most successful businessmen. Flying out with Ronnie to his remote jungle headquarters, Simon is given a tour of his vast gold mining concession. Despite being a convicted cocaine trafficker, Brunswijk was recently appointed vice president of Suriname.
Simon ends his journey in French Guiana, which is still a department of France, where he visits the launch site of the European Space Agency and goes on jungle patrol with the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion. Filmed just before the pandemic struck, Simon had no idea that his South American journey would soon be interrupted.
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Why are they destroying the mine and making it unsafe?
So Interesting. Thank you Simon. Jx
“Absolutely love watching All ov your programs you kind , considerate, & brave, you’ve been in some unfamiliar situations,, But you shine ❤Bless you 🫶🏼
NICE trip did one similar through Brazil
wow🤗
love your video from Bangladesh
*BBC* _you so happy if my doughter🌺 say ok_
we take our freedom for granted
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Did Simon also went to Suriname. That is also South Amerika.
Hello I would like to go there. But I have to learn Spanish
🇬🇧 *BBC* 🤔 “ _This Hall was created as a place to build trust - to bring about peace and security, development and human rights. We owe it to our 8 billion constituents, the people we are here to serve, to succeed in our aims_ ” ─ H.E. *Csaba Kőrösi* The President of the 🇺🇳 *UNGA 77* _At the opening of the Seventy-Seventh Session of the United Nations General Assembly_ _September 13, 2022_
How come Todd Hoffman couldn’t find any gold or diamonds there? Maybe because he’s not a good miner!
French Guyana 10000 illegal gold miners but not French illegal occupation or what France is doing in Guyana
What if you are buying a bag of chips?
Suggest 450,000 sq miles of ancient gold mines in South Africa 🇿🇦 😄 Some of them cut by lasers🤯 Michael Tellinger will tell us more😘Aģape
@TheDanEdwards
Жыл бұрын
Are you an easy mark for conmen?
How is this France?
@David_Rafuse
Жыл бұрын
French Guiana is an Overseas Department of France.
@chrisscrivener4759
8 ай бұрын
Good grief
This bloke just goes on holiday at the licence fee payers' expense. At the moment he's going around Greece...nobody knows what Greece is like do they!!! He just does programmes about going to exotic countries and"walking about" a bit
Latin America is one of the richest continents on earth, the but thing is the corrupted people and politicians 🥲🥲
You've seen all the vast poverty in the world how do you feel about kings and queens Simon
Next they sent army to invade u
In episode 4 of 5, you are in some breakaway community. All blonde haired, all oddballs, not one colored person. This to me is not the real South America at all.
I used to be a fan of Simon Reeve. Sad to realize it's just propaganda. I'd recommend everybody to compare with different sources.
@AK-74K
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Where is the propaganda here?
@chrisscrivener4759
8 ай бұрын
propaganda?. Extremely naive. Have you actually watched it?
Now why would France send the French foreign legion?
@David_Rafuse
Жыл бұрын
The Legion's 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3eme REI) has been based there, in Kourou for decades. They provide security for the European Space Agency's Ariane rocket launch site, they run one of the French Army's jungle warfare schools, and patrol the borders to counter drug-smugglers and illegal gold miners like you see here.
⚽️🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷Brasil irá vencer e não seremos comunistas. Deus pátria família liberdade. Bolsonaro o melhor presidente do Brasil e do mundo inteiro!
THe BBC sends all these presenters like Reeves, Jamie Oliver, Rick Stien, the two Hairy Bikers, Nadia Hussien, Annika, Nicola Walker, Clive Myrie, Monica Gullati, Paul Haoolywood, James Martin, Monica Gullati a cast of a 1000 and they have to show every World Cup, Every Olympics, even for 2 min clips and then harps on to the Working Class they should switch off the lights think about using thier cars, climate change. How duplicitous off them. Do as we say not as we do!
@chrisscrivener4759
8 ай бұрын
to have actually thought this, then written down, then to actually press send.. I have no words to describe your stupidity