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The article reports on the politics and history of the Guyana Region. The region is a place inhabited by great biodiversity, cultures, peoples, languages, flows of people and a rich history. Among the various regions that make up the subcontinent of South America, Guyana is the least studied in the composition of the Transnational Amazon and the American continent in general. It is part of the Transnational Amazon and represents five of the nine countries that share the Amazon space. Original peoples, colonization, establishment of borders, migratory flows are some of the elements that make up high potential to be further explored in the study of history and international relations.

The article presents an interview with Cynthia McLeod, one of the greatest writers in Suriname, talking about exposing the entrails of Surinamese colonial society. Some of the other topics discussed include the role of literature in consolidating the identity of the Suriname after independence and what unites and separates Suriname from the Amazon/South America and Suriname from the Caribbean.

This paper discusses cross-border projects and their respective social representations to local groups. We present as a case study the boatmen who pilot their boats between Brazil and France on the construction of the Binational Bridge. Catraieiros are currently responsible for much of the logistics between Amapá and French Guiana. Our theoretical framework is based on the literature on Regional Integration and Social Representation. We applied interviews to one third of the catraieiros. We concluded that in the Subject-Representation-Object relationship, the group that understood itself as responsible for the dialogue between two cities built a negative and threatening representation on the Bridge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to analyze military cooperation between Brazil and Suriname. In the last decades South America has become a strategic platform for international insertion to Brazil. Our methodology is based on bibliographical analysis, analysis of military cooperation agreements, documentary analysis and official statements, speeches and positions of the social and political actors of the region. Our analysis shows that even though Suriname has a low diplomatic interaction with Brazil, it occupies a prominent position in military cooperation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]