Talk:Guinea-Bissau

Drugs

Under the section on drugs, it says flows have now been diverted to Mali. However, I can't find anything to back this up and the 2 citations given don't mention this either- referring instead to G-B's own problems as a drugs trans-shipment point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.242.107 (talk) 13:39, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Sanitized History

This article is very consciously dishonest, seems to me. Amilcar Cabrál's name doesn't appear even once, let alone the entire liberation struggle. Simply amazing. Was this information all taken from the U.S. State Department or the CIA or the British Foreign Office or Lisboa?

I don't know who wrote this article, but they have a lot to answer for. No excuses. You are letting innocent readers down. Perhaps that's the intention. Sanitizing and censorship of facts certainly do not belong on Wikipedia. I don't know how you think this article would stay like this, given what Wikipedia is. And maybe a Wikipedia editor might think I'm over-reacting here, but then then mightn't know just how much this present article is leaving out. It's much like leaving the American Revolution and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson completely out of an article on U.S. history, for instance.

The only reason I don't crawl all over this article with stubs and everything is because I don't quite know my way around Wikipedia and am busy with other things right now. Consider this article being put on notice for NPOV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pazouzou (talk • contribs)

Yes, I agree that the history chapters are not neutral enough. Although Cabral is now mentioned, some facts are stressed very much (e.g. the assasinations on collaborators with the Portuese in 1974), while others aren't even mentioned (like the Pidjiguiti massacres committed by the Portuguese in 1957 and 59). Unfortunately, myself, I also have few time and my English is not good enough... --Zebaba (talk) 13:23, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Drug Trafficking

According to BBC, Guinea-Bissau has a major drug trafficking problem. [1] Jumping cheese 05:44, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Channel 4 news in the UK ran a long feature tonight (19/7/07) on the issue of drug trafficking, and also that there is an epidemic of crack cocaine abuse amongst the citizens there now too. Seems that it definitely warrants a mention here. LouiseCooke

So go for it re the trafficking problems, I dont think a use epidemic locally is notable to include though as this could be said for many, many countries starting with the US, SqueakBox 18:29, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

The Vieira Years

It seems to me that there's an error or a misunderstanding in the history of the PAIGC's relation to Vieira. According to many sources (e.g. http://www.afrol.com/articles/32943) Vieira joined the presidential elections of 2005 as an independent candidate, because of many differences with the PAIGC majority and its leadership. In the article it is written: "Vieira was a candidate for one of the factions of the PAIGC". What is true? Was there a new party, that arose from a PAIGC faction? Another expression that leads to confusion: "Viera's party, PAIGC, made further gains, to secure 67 of 100 seats, in parliamentary elections in November 2008." As they were parliamentary elections, they don't have anything to do with the president, but the article still makes the PAIGC "Vieiras party", although that time the differences between Vieira and the party's parlamentary group even became worse. Maybe he was still a party member, but he had no real influence on the decisions anymore. Once I changed that sentence by removing that attribute (see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guinea-Bissau&diff=prev&oldid=282626146), but it was changed by someone else to a previous version, along with other edits. I don't want to reedit again without giving other editors (like Jomifica) the opportunity to discuss that issue here.--Zebaba (talk) 14:03, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Conversions in infoboxes

13,948 sq mi (36,125 km²) or 36,544 km² (14,110 sq mi), what is it??? I suspect that similar anamolies can be found in the infoboxes of other countries. Peter Horn User talk 23:51, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

The consistant use of Template:convert is highly recommended. Peter Horn User talk 23:59, 20 September 2009 (UTC)

"Highly recommended"? Probably not when you think in sq mi and put nearly at the wrong place. Hirpex (talk) 16:24, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

April 2010 Coup

When you are you going to add something about this, you lazy fucks?

--121.209.164.119 (talk) 12:08, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Bioho Region in Guinea-Bissau?

Is there, or was there ever, a Bioho Region in Guinea-Bissau? Does anyone know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bab-a-lot (talk • contribs) 00:18, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

2010 coup, drug trade

I added 2 sections. Can someone collapse some of the templates at the bottom ? Wizzy…☎ 21:59, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

education

It is astonishing that the post-colonial history of education in Guinea-Bissau - from the literacy campaign inspired by Paulo Freire to the creation of by now 4 universities is absent from this article. As I am not really a specialist on Guinea-B, I hope someone else will take this up. -- Aflis (talk) 17:59, 8 November 2010 (UTC)