Word: paramaribo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, who had led a Marxist coup on his nearby Caribbean island in 1979, Bouterse drifted gradually leftward. Soon he was visiting Fidel Castro, singing his praises and allowing the Soviets and Cubans to open well-staffed embassies in the riverfront capital of Paramaribo. Nevertheless, Bouterse's revolutionary fervor remained relatively lackadaisical: he never bothered to nationalize private enterprises or muzzle frequent criticism from the press...
...galvanize a disgruntled populace into another coup. But no one can be sure that a change of power would restore democracy or prosperity to Suriname. As Chin A Sen says, "We don't want to replace Frankenstein with Dracula." - By Pico Iyer. Reported by William McWhirter/ Paramaribo...
Caught in a hotel four blocks from the police headquarters in Paramaribo, Surninam, were the two researchers, who have worked in the former Dutch colony for eight years tracing an African descended tribe back to Ghana. They were in Surninam preparing further research...