| Submit your comments on this article |
| Caribbean-Latin America |
| Guyana plans to turn site of Jonestown massacre into tourist attraction |
| 2024-12-09 |
| [NYPOST] Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after US Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country. It was the largest suicide-murder in recent history, and a government-backed tour operator wants to open the former commune now shrouded by lush vegetation to visitors, a proposal that is reopening old wounds, with critics saying it would disrespect victims and dig up a sordid past. Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and was moved into the Peoples Temple commune at age 14, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in a phone interview from the US that she has mixed feelings about the tour. Related: Guyana: 2024-11-30 Three 'narco-submarines' are seized along with drugs worth $8 billion in global raid Guyana: 2024-11-16 As Gaza fighting continues, Hamas urges Trump to pressure Israel to end Gaza war; PIJ releases hostage video Guyana: 2024-11-10 Hezbollah’s tentacles in Africa |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Free punch! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-12-09 14:18 |
| #3 Nobody is going to Guyana for this. I hope they don’t have a gift shop. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-12-09 12:00 |
| #2 They should start in San Francisco. Jones had the backing of the SF Dem power structure before he went south |
| Posted by: Frank G 2024-12-09 09:58 |
| #1 There should probably be a memorial there. I can understand having some tour guides. “Tourist Attraction” means profit to me. That is too far will only attract stray Reddit weirdos, and few of them. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-12-09 08:52 |