How Guyana Was Made
Автор: Lost in Context
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Guyana is a place of deep, deep social fractures. It has the 20th highest homicide rate in the world, almost three times the global average. Almost anywhere here in the capital city it’s strongly advised not to walk alone at night.
So how did this tiny paradise get so violent? Unlike Brazil or Colombia or El Salvador, the story of Guyana is a little different. This video looks at how the Europeans smashed together the people of three different continents to create this little colony of sugar.
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00:00 Intro
01:22 Background
02:23 Dutch Guyana
06:47 Essequibo and Bartica
11:41 Fort Island
17:00 The British
19:40 Indentured Labour
21:30 The PPP and PNC
26:30 Racial Division
29:20 Independence
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