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Suriname is one of those countries in the western hemisphere that few “outsiders” visit unless they are in the mineral/petroleum industry, radio astronomers, or Christian missionaries. That said, it's francophone, mostly blacks mixed with other races that have descended largely from slave laborers and indentured servants working on sugar plantations, however as a people they are great. But Suriname is a hotbed of piracy, drug trafficking, and violent crime, with crushing poverty, even compared to its neighbors. And just as communism targetted poverty ridden nations as an “alternative” to capitalism, radical islamic elements are now attempting to establish a beachhead there.

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It’s sort of the epitome of Wing Nut Daily stupidity that the reason for outrage over the cost of an embassy is because the country is violent and riddled with drug dealerss; new embassies are typically built because the exsiting ones don’t meet the elaborate security standards put in place after the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing and the AQ attacks on the Kenya/Tanzania embassies; most of the cost of the new embassies is because of the fortress-like security requirements.

And then of course if the new embassy wasn’t built and our existing embassy in Suriname was Benghazied by Islamist terrorists, WND would savage the State Department for that.

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I think you’re lying. Colonialism did all that. Post-colonial countries are paradises. Stop spreading lies.