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Suriname’s President Prepares for an Oil Boom

By Jason Pinas

Jennifer Geerlings-Simons promises a novel blueprint for a delicate opportunity.

This article is adapted from AQ's upcoming special report on the Trump doctrine PARAMARIBO—Suriname’s first female president, Jennifer Geerlings-Simons, is leading the world’s most forested country. She’s also set to oversee the world’s latest oil boom. The Dutch-speaking country of some 660,000 people is about to experience an oil bonanza that could double its $4.7 billion GDP by 2030. But last July, after winning the National Assembly’s endorsement, Geerlings-Simons took the helm of a country in crisis. A still-developing parliamentary democracy in which the president...

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