Between French Guiana and Brazil, an uncontrollable border (2/4) • FRANCE 24 English

Every day, nearly 3,000 dugout canoes cross the Oyapock River, which serves as a natural demarcation in South America between Brazil and French Guiana. The river's banks are the scene of trafficking, illegal immigration and unlawful gold panning. Locals play cat and mouse with the border police, who try their best to monitor the comings and goings. The Covid-19 pandemic should have meant a hermetic closure of the border. Instead, it showed more than ever how uncontrollable this frontier is. FRANCE 24's Fanny Lothaire and Laura Damase report, with Séverine Bardon and Olivier Marzin.
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[@marianelathompson3421]

I’m a French citizen and went to the French Guiana/Brazil border. Coming back into town, the gendarmes controlled my French passport and Guiana plated rental car three times whereas on the river separating both countries and with boats full of Brazilians and others crossing the whole day into French Guiana, no one gendarme could be found.

[@macealvaro2]

Je comprends pas pourquoi La France ne profit pas des couts bas des produits et génere des sinérgie avec le commerce régionaux , en insistant à importer tout de la métropole. Ils peuvent augmenté considérablement les salaires réels et par conséquance le niveau de vie des citoyens de Guyanne juste en ouvrant le commerce avec la région. C'est une questions de tax? Je pense pas, ces regions sont défficitaires. Les tratés commercieaux sont déja établi. La France a des traités avec la Colombie, Chili et Pérou, et celui avec le Mercosur sera signé une fois que la France aura négotier las conditions pour les produits agricoles. Cest une mésure qui coutenet rien et qui peut avoir d'impact énorme sur la Guyanne.

[@freedomm]

Why does France still have a colony in South America?

[@ByCorePVP]

Its not a colony. There are french.

[@freedomm]

@@ByCorePVP France is in Europe. It's a colony.

[@frigidlava617]

its part of france like hawaii is a part of the us.

[@freedomm]

@@frigidlava617 Hawaii would be comparable to Corsica, not a huge territory on the South American mainland

[@Hilariusgamer]

@@freedomm It is smaller territory but more important strategically for military. That is why they invest so much in Hawaii. When someone would want to attack US, they could just stop them there

[@chesterjade7630]

Can you imagine the snakes and anaconda in the water and on land. Scarey!

[@CarlosAmorimCarvalho]

Why is French Guiana so poor?

[@jrowl98]

to enrich france

[@christiansouza2036]

AMAZONAS IS OUR

[@frigidlava617]

I mean compared to the rest of South America it is pretty rich. Geography and demographics determine that French Guiana will always be poor relative to france.

[@FOLIPE]

@@frigidlava617 It's not really that rich compared to neighbors. Its surprisingly poor

[@frigidlava617]

@@FOLIPE gdp per capita french guiana: $17,375 gdp per capita brazil: $6,796.84 gdp per capita amapa (the brazilian state that border french guiana) $2893.03 gdp per capita suriname: $6,491.14

[@jejh600]

Franche needs to support her colonies!

[@Hilariusgamer]

They should invest there and give proper jobs to their people. They are french citizens.

[@sspiby]

Why do they import French police ,Gendarme and diplomats . Can't they recruit the locals ?

[@An_ony_mous]

They fear losing Guiana. They fear independence of Guiana lol. They clearly know that the people hate them.

[@nelsonestrabola3014]

What happens if the man who said it was Brazilian in reality is from another country and just got in French Guyana so police offers just took him to another countrie

[@tazobis27]

Everywhere france 🇫🇷 steps foot is a big mess

[@jasonlives6923]

"Please don't send US/UK troops there." We South Americans will handle our own problems.

[@nelsonestrabola3014]

I fell bad for all the indigenous people who lived their lives normally and one day French got in French Guyana and said ok this is our land , now all of you are French

[@Clairettte-zi5lj]

That's not how it worked. Most of these people where from Africa and came here to work (slavery...) centuries ago

[@raviseebran9755]

AAÀA

[@gerhardolson6245]

😂

[@Max62535]

French Guiana is Brazilian.

[@Olivier-cr8ri]

Brazil is Germany : 7-1

[@Max62535]

@@Olivier-cr8ri Germany in Paris 1940 🤣

[@user-tk8tz7xf1q]

French Guiana need independent now from the french u keeping people poor and suffering

[@winstonmaraj8029]

Set up a military style border with drones and mines to seal off the border.

[@lucas9269]

Wtf, did you watch the video? The people do the crossing both ways and they are mostly indigenous civilians, it's weird that there's a colony of France in this day and age there at all.

[@yo2trader539]

French will be kicked out if they get in the way of locals.

[@KevinP32270]

you want to starve the poor people? they are just trying to eat and survive. they are not trying to take over the country.

[@guruxara7994]

These people are crossing this river for thousands of years.