1. In Transit: Gangs and Criminal Networks in Guyana
- Author:
- Taylor Owen and Alexandre Grigsby
- Publication Date:
- 02-2012
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Small Arms Survey
- Abstract:
- Guyana is an anomaly in South America. As the only English-speaking country on the continent, Guyana identifies primarily with its fellow former British colonies in the Caribbean, such as Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, rather than its immediate Hispanic, Portuguese, and Dutch neighbours (Venezuela, Brazil, and Suriname). Relative to other South American states, Guyana's population is small—only 750, 000 people, 90 per cent of whom live along the Atlantic coast—leaving the country's vast interior sparsely populated (Mars, 2010,. Georgetown, the country's capital, is Guyana's largest city with just over 200, 000 people, followed by the cities of Linden and New Amsterdam, with about 410, 000 and 18, 500 inhabitants, respectively.
- Topic:
- Political Violence, Arms Control and Proliferation, Crime, and Governance
- Political Geography:
- Latin America and Guyana