The current situation in French Guiana

Located on the northeast coast of South America, French Guiana is as big as Ireland or Indiana. It is adjacent to Brazil in the east and south, the Atlantic Ocean in the north, and Suriname in the west, surrounded by Maroni (Marowijne) and Litani River. Residents of about 9% countries hardly live in the equatorial rainforest. On the frontier of Brazil, from the long beach along the coast, they gradually rise to the modest Tumac-Humac Mountain. Most Guyanese live along the Atlantic coast, which contains most of the country's limited road network. The coast is mainly connected with mangrove swamp to form a beach. Animals include monkeys, crocodiles (caimans) produced in Central and South America, Malays, ocelots and anteaters. French Guiana is a very wet country. Even when it doesn't rain, the humidity in the air is heavy. Because the country is located in the equatorial rainforest belt, the temperature is around 3°C, and the annual rainfall exceeds 25cm. The rainy season is from January to June, and it rains the most in May. The capital, Kaiyun, is as livable as the Atlantic coast, and most inland areas are sultry.

French Guiana people mainly believe in Roman Catholicism, and French is the official language. Almost everyone speaks creole, a national lingua franca, Guianese, a runaway slave (descendants of slaves, who built villages inside), and Amerindians, who maintain their own religion and speak Arawak, Caribbean, Emerillon, Oyapi, Palicur and Wayana. Signs and symbols are all connected with France, French francs, police and sidewalk cafes are all mixed with French influence-carnival carnival, wood carving of slaves and Caribbean music and dancing, which bring Guyana an obvious non-Latin atmosphere.

The original inhabitants of French Guiana were Caribbean people and Arawak Indians. From the mid-17th century, the Netherlands, Britain and France all established colonies in this area. Commercial arrangements that only controlled the territory often shifted, and France consolidated its control of the region in 1817. Sugar and rainforest timber became the economic pillars of the colony. Slaves brought the work of planting sugar gardens from Africa, although their success was limited by the hostility of local Indians and tropical diseases. And after the abolition of slavery in 1848, the output of plantations never matched that of French Caribbean colonies, and the local industry almost collapsed. At about the same time, France decided to reduce the cost of prisons and immigrate prisoners to Guyana to contribute to the development of the colony. About 7, criminals-including Alfred Dreyfus and Henri Papillon Charriere-arrived between 1852 and 1939. At first, many exiled criminals survived the harsh environment, and most of them died of malaria and fever. After World War II, Guyana remained a colony of criminals, and in 1946, it became a government department of France. Since then, many indigenous people have called for autonomy, although the favor of independence from France is only 5%, partly because the French government provides more subsidies. In Kourou, the European space program has turned this corner of French Guiana into a modern world and attracted some forces to move here to work.