My blog is about everything that comes with live as a PhD-student. An impressive example of how wild and bumpy that ride can sometimes be can be found in this post from two of my fellow students, currently trying to figure out how to keep their fieldwork campaign going in a tropical country that went into its third week of total strike. Worth the read!
15 Days ago it all started with 1 roadblock in Kourou. Strikers blocked the access road to the Space Center in an attempt to delay the planned rocket launch. It worked. It took the Guyanese people only 1 day to rise and with the whole community they dropped what they were doing, resulting in a general strike throughout the whole country. Well, the whole overseas department, as French Guiana is not really a country on its own. (In the French media there was quite some discussion about this subject: how you can talk about the ‘Peuple guyanais’ if there is only a ‘Peuple français’?).
On Thursday, 3 days after the first strike, roadblocks throughout the whole country were put up. You couldn’t get in or out any village in French Guiana anymore. This does not only count for individuals, but also for companies, resulting in empty shops: no more fresh…
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