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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to come up with a scenario in which the Guianas- OTL's Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana- are all united under a single government as one nation, under self-rule (i.e, fully independent) by the present day. You're free to choose any POD after Walter Raleigh's exploration of the region in 1596, and the first publication of his book in which the region was referred to as Guiana for the first time. And there are bonus points available for anyone who manages to bring the entirety of the Guianas region under the control of this one nation, including Spanish Guiana and Brazilian Guiana, and the entirety of the land within the Guiana Shield (as marked on the map below):
So then, are you up to the challenge? And how would you go about meeting it?