Guyana
Guyana is a country in Latin America, founded in 1966, by declaring its independance fromthe British Empire, with a population of 740.000 people (40% of Indian descent). Its capital and largest city is Georgetown. It is a member of the United Nations. It is ruled by the British and the Jesuits. It has the 153th largest GDP in the world.
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History of Guyana
1549 John III of Portugal (Habsburg) orders missions to conquer Latin America and to convert the native tribes to Christianity.
1553 Manuel de Nobrega becomes first provincial of jesuits in Brazil, appointed by Everard Mercurian.
1667 Guyana is conquered by the Dutch.
1814 Guyana is conquered by the British Empire.
1844 establishment of Queen's College.
1934 Arnold Krumm-Heller, in contact with MI6 agent Aleister Crowley, founds a rosicrucian lodge in Brazil.
1966 independance.
1968 the banning of Guyanese activist Walter Rodney in Jamaica leads to the Rodney Riots.
1970 Arthur Chung (Chinese descent) as first president.
1972 Walter Rodney publishes How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
1975 Operation Condor: the jesuits of the CIA install military dictatorships in Latin America.
1977 Jim Jones moves his People's Temple to Guyana.
1979 Jonestown massacre on 11/18.
1980 Forbes Burnham (trained at London School of Economics) as president. His wife Viola Burnham (University of Chicago) was a promotor of Jim Jones. Assassination of historian and Black Power activist Walter Rodney.
1992 Cheddi Jagan (Indian descent) as president.
1997 Cheddi Jagan dies at Walter Reed Army Hospital (Project Bluebird) in Washington. Janet Rosenberg Jagan as president.
2020 Irfaan Ali (muslim) as president.
Presidents
Arthur Chung, Forbes Burnham, Desmond Hoyte, Cheddi Jagan, Janet Jagan, Bharrat Jagdeo, Donald Ramotar, David Granger, Irfaan Ali.