{"id":269822,"date":"2017-04-10T20:02:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=269822"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:25:24","slug":"french-guiana-the-part-of-south-america-facing-a-total-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/french-guiana-the-part-of-south-america-facing-a-total-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"French Guiana: The part of South America facing a total shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>How can all South American states accept that a part of their territory is still occupied by France in the last French colony on this continent? It\u2019s time for the people living there to become fully independent!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Discontent over living standards in French Guiana has led to a large-scale blockade on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The territory has regained control of its space station (more on that later) but anger there is not going away.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being in South America, French Guiana remains part of France and has been paralysed by protests against a lack of investment from the mainland.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators, led by a masked group known as the 500 Brothers, have been fighting for $2.5bn (\u00a32bn) in aid.<\/p>\n<p>France has made an offer of \u00a31m, which has been rejected.<\/p>\n<p>French Guiana has been experiencing widespread protests for the past two weeks, following a general strike on 27 March and an occupation of the Guiana Space Station, which delayed a rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p>The 500 Brothers, a collective of black-clad, masked people who say they are campaigning against crime and delinquency, called for a total shutdown on Monday, including road blocks after a police officer was injured in protests last week.<\/p>\n<p>Where is French Guiana?<br \/>\nFrench Guiana sits in the north-east corner of South America, north of Brazil, and alongside Guyana and Suriname.<\/p>\n<p>While Guyana and Suriname gained independence from their colonisers (the UK and the Netherlands respectively), French Guiana never has. It is classed as an overseas territory; its currency is the euro and its official language is French, although many also speak Creole.<\/p>\n<p>It is bigger than Belgium, but has a population of about 250,000 people (compared with Belgium&#8217;s 11 million).<\/p>\n<p>Its tough environment &#8211; including scorching heat and sharks &#8211; was made famous in the 1969 book Papillon, which later became a film staring Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39557670\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-39557670<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: How can all South American states accept that a part of their territory is still occupied by France in the last French colony on this continent? It\u2019s time for the people living there to become fully independent! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}