In Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, a dozen kilos come to light when a luggage trolley, quite by chance, splits the Suriname diplomatic bag.
Colombians are well entrenched.Drugs also flow from Colombia to Jamaica, or to Suriname and on to Europe, or north along the eastern Caribbean island chain to Puerto Rico.
Two-thirds of the 3.3m Colombians officially registered as internally displaced claim to have lost land when they fled.In this section This land is our land Towards a mixed economy Disappearing dollars A night to remember, and to forget Correction: Suriname ReprintsThe government of Juan Manuel Santos, who took over from Álvaro Uribe as president last month, wants to restore this land.
On July 1 , 1863 slavery was abolished in Suriname.
It divides Suriname and Guyana.
The Netherlands began to provide development aid to Suriname in 1948, the year in which talks on Suriname's internal political autonomy began.
Surinam became independent in 1975 and was renamed the Republic of Suriname in 1978.
He tells me how he once introduced female twins from Suriname to two brothers from Edinburgh, and both sets ended up marrying.
Four countries and territories besides North Korea are included for the first time: the Bahamas, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Suriname.
Like the Saramaka in Suriname or Jamaica's Maroons, they claim to be descended from groups of runaway slaves who founded settlements, or quilombos, deep in the forests.
Several thousand of them are in Caribbean jails; Suriname alone has 500, mostly with Dutch passports.
