ABSTRACT
Guyana lies between Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname on the north-east coast of the South American continent. Guyana became very active in the Non-Aligned Movement and hosted the Fourth Conference of Foreign Ministers of Non-Aligned Countries in August 1972, the first such conference held in the Americas. Venezuela is situated on the northeast coast of South America between Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, and Guyana on the east, and its territory includes seventy-two island dependencies. Governmental plans to integrate the Indian into the mainstream of Venezuelan life and to bring social and economic development to the Indian communities have been unevenly applied. National dissatisfaction against the Falcon government caused its leader to leave the country in mid-1868, and Jose Tadeo Monagas occupied Caracas after street battles. A revolutionary nationalist dictator, General Cipriano Castro, governed Venezuela from 1899 to 1908.
