List of Guyana articles
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A tourist leans against a sign that reads "Welcome to the People's Temple Jonestown" as two people take photos of them. The sign arches over a muddy dirt road with dense trees and brush on either side. After Chernobyl, Jonestown?
Guyana taps into the dark tourism trend by opening the site where cult members purportedly drank the Kool-Aid.
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro speaks into a microphone at a press conference while gesturing with one hand. In the other hand, he holds up a tiny copy of the Venezuelan Constitution, which is shorter than his fingers. What’s Wrong With Biden’s Venezuela Policy
Maduro, newly emboldened, is now manufacturing a regional crisis.
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Members of the Venezuelan army take part in a military parade in Tumeremo, Bolívar state, Venezuela, about 56 miles from the border with Guyana, on July 21, 2015. Another Conflict Is Brewing in the Caribbean
Russia’s war in Ukraine stirs Venezuela’s dreams of conquest in oil-rich Guyana.
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Voters cast their ballots at a polling station. Does Guyana Foretell an American Future?
A disputed election. Racialized parties. A constitutional crisis. Washington already has a model for what could go wrong.
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A street vendor sits next to banners of the presidential candidate for the National Unity and Alliance for Change party (APNU+AFC) David Granger, in Georgetown, Guyana, on March 1, 2020. Ethnic Conflict Threatens Democracy in Guyana
The country’s simmering ethnic tensions threaten to undermine a fragile democratic system and bring on the resource curse before the proceeds from massive offshore oil discoveries arrive.
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The flag of Guyana is seen in Surama on Dec. 3, 2016. New Oil Finds Could Mean a Tripling of Guyana’s GDP
Here’s how the country can avoid the resource curse.
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Above: Two people look over the balcony on the second floor of the Parliament building in Georgetown on April 26. Top: In a section of Georgetown called Houston, contractors are building out a new oil industry depot, capable of storing needed equipment, fuel, water, cement, fluids, and other materials that contractors working in Guyana’s deep waters need. The base already has a contract to supply ExxonMobil. (Micah Maidenberg for Foreign Policy) The Country That Wasn’t Ready to Win the Lottery
Guyana just discovered it owns enough oil to solve all its problems — and cause even bigger ones.
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GettyImages-74386509guyana CIA Meddling, Race Riots, and a Phantom Death Squad
Why a tiny South American country can't escape the ugly legacies of its idiosyncratic past.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An Oil Strike in No Man’s Land
A new oil field near Venezuela could be the miracle Maduro was waiting for. There's just one problem — it's in territory claimed by Guyana.
