He and Claude Prevost attempted to establish Dutch colonies in Guyana, although they both failed with most Dutch colonists being killed by natives in 1627. However, Zeelandian merchant Abraham van Peere was able to found a successful colony in the area shortly after. Birthplace: Netherlands ...
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Guyana has a developing market economy with both public and private ownership. Major exports include sugar, rice, and bauxite. It is a unitary multiparty republic with one legislative house; its head of state and government is the president. [source] ...
A woman president? Many American women have bravely but unsuccessfully run for President of the United States: Victoria Woodhull, Shirley Chisholm and Geraldine Ferraro to name a few. But when an American woman named Janet Jagan ran for president of Guyana, she actually won. ...
It is most notable for being the home state of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States (although Lincoln was born in Kentucky, he spent much of his life in Illinois and represented it in the US House of Representatives), reflected in the nickname "Land of Lincoln." ...
Nepal, Guyana, and Moldova have all had ruling communist parties in recent years. Socialist Countries While the world has just five truly communist countries, socialist countries (countries whose constitutions include statements about the protection and rule of the working class) are relatively ...
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Politics:President Hugo Chavez leads a self-styled socialist revolution but polarises domestic opinion Economy:Venezuela is a major oil producer; export revenues fund huge social programmes International:Mr Chavez is a strident critic of Washington; the US portrays him as a security threat. Critics sa...
No. Name State Position Birth Age Living as of 1 Guillermo Rodríguez ECU Acting President (1972–1976) 4 November 1923 101 years 78 days 27 February 2020[1] 2 Khamtai Siphandone Laos Prime Minister (1991–1998)Chairman of the People's Revolutionary Party (1992–2006)President (1998–200...