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Co-operative Republic of Guyana

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Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Flag of Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Flag
Coat of arms of Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Coat of arms
Location of Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Capital
and largest city
Georgetown
Official languagesEnglish
Dominant mode of productionCapitalism
GovernmentAssembly-independent republic
• President
Irfaan Ali
• Prime Minister
Mark Phillips
Area
• Total
214,970 km²
Population
• 2019 estimate
743,700


Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country in South America. In the 1950s and 1960s, the CIA attempted to undermine the government of democratic socialist Cheddi Jagan, who was the prime minister of British Guiana at the time.[1]

History

Following the 1794 Batavian Revolution in the Netherlands, Guyanese slave owners allowed the British to take over Guyana because they worried that the Dutch would abolish slavery like France. In 1823, following a slave revolt, the British declared martial law and killed 250 rebels.[2]

References

  1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070212125256/http://www.guyana.org/govt/US-declassifed-documents-1964-1968.html Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, Volume XXXII, Dominican Republic; Cuba; Haiti; Guyana]: 'Guyana' (2005).
  2. Domenico Losurdo (2011). Liberalism: A Counter-History: 'Crisis of the English and American Models' (pp. 157–158). [PDF] Verso. ISBN 9781844676934 [LG]