Talk:Guinea-Bissau

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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)