
Then, when I expected the computer, something unexpected happened, the "blockage", a kind forced and spontaneous strike to protest fuel prices in Guyana (which was about € 1.80 / liter), and completely paralyzed for 14 days, and when I say everything is everything: the strikers cut the only road that is in Guyana at several points in Saint Laurent cut off all the exits of the people and children could not come to class so that classes were suspended, the shops were closed and short of supplies, there was no money in banks the gas bottles were exhausted and gas stations had no gasoline (petrol but not much being served roads cut off). We also spent 2 days without electricity, we did the holiday cooking everything in the fridge.
As we had no food and everything was closed we would Albina (Suriname) to shop, well, us and all Saint Laurent, in Albina are departing from us, the truth is that it was a funny situation, we Europeans first world fleeing illegally to a third world country to buy food and survive. After the first days of strike, as the thing did not look to change we went to Paramaribo (Suriname's capital) a few days (I'll write a post about Paramaribo). And the truth is that we were living in uncertainty because did not know when it would end the "blockage" and if we had to work the next day.
The strikers demanded a 50 cent reduction in the price of gasoline, the French government offered 30. At the end two weeks after having stalled over 200,000 people, the government has relented and half down 50 cents to the price of gasoline, but only for the next 3 months, so we'll see what happens when you pass the 3 months.
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