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Notes on Guyana

Over the summer, I visited Guyana (pronounced Guy-ana), mostly in and around the capital of Georgetown. I had plans to see far more of the country but they didn’t come to fruition. Sometimes while …

When election day came in March 2020, everything was surprisingly calm, probably because foreign observers – including representatives from the US, UK, Canada, EU, Carter Center and a million other international organizations and NGOs – were present to make sure a suddenly relevant geopolitical player wouldn’t meltdown. The Guyanese government has mostly put out calls for international support in case of an invasion since the overwhelming consensus is that Guyana’s paltry military will be crushed by Venezuela’s probably highly incompetent and corrupt but vastly larger and significantly more advanced forces. During my first day in Georgetown, I went to a mall to buy a sim card and exchange money, then I went to the city center to see a church and visit a market and try not to get robbed, then I spent a fruitless two hours walking around a commercial district failing to find a decent car rental service, and then… I couldn’t figure out what to do.

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