Irfaan Ali finally became the President of Guyana in August this year, becoming the first Muslim ever to head up a Latin American country and overcoming an attempt by the previous government, led by David Granger, to manipulate the vote count.
Guyanese politics have been a fractious affair since independence, in 1966, divided the polity between two main political parties: the National Party, largely supported by Guyanese Afro-Caribbean people; and the People’s Progressive Party, supported by the country’s South Asian population.
