Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: the ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony

Situating Petrostate Guyana in the Rise of China Discourse

“…Predictions by some scholars (Bishop et al, 2017) that Latin America's regional integration efforts like Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), or South-South institutional structures such as the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), would bear fruit in an increasingly multipolar world have not yet materialized. While the devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic has been felt across the world, for Guyana and other Caribbean small-island developing states, the current crisis has reaffirmed vulnerabilities that stem from their Northern economic orientation and developmental dependency.…”

Small man goes where the large fears to tread: Mining in Guyana: 1990-2018

“…These issues are often complicated by the fact that the mining community and indigenous communities are often inter-linked with many indigenous individuals engaged in the mining industry at various levels, both on titled community land and on state land. These problems have been exacerbated by the influx of semi-legal Brazilian garimperos into the country in the period 2007 to 2015 (Bishop et al, 2017). Again statistics on the actual volume of Brazilian miners entering and working within the country are not available but there is some evidence from both interviews and newspaper sources that a large number of these miners have entered or are operating illegally and there have been many incidents of murders and robberies relating to their entry (Correa & Superti, 2016;Kaieteur News, 2018b).…”