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unemployment rate is 23 percent and more than 40 percent for 18-to-25-year-olds; the cost of living is higher than in mainland France due to the need to import most goods and EU-sanctioned tariffs with neighboring Brazil and
Suriname; foreign nationals are 35 percent as opposed to 6.5 percent in mainland France; and the murder rate is the highest anywhere in France with 42 homicides in 2016. Moreover, the consumption of illicit drugs like cannabis, cocaine and crack, is very high.
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French Guiana is fraught with tensions between different communities (indigenous peoples, descendants of
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of French Guiana to call it "the largest demonstration ever held in French Guiana." The demonstrators carried the
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Carlier, RĂ©mi (April 2, 2017). "Rockets in the jungle: Understanding French Guiana's social unrest".
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Pennetier, Marine; Pineau, Elizabeth; Vey, Jean-Baptiste (April 3, 2017).
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