The article discusses the changes in Guyana´s and Suriname´s geopolitical relations,
which are the result from the democratization process experienced by those states in the
early 1990s. Countries of late independence, achieved in 1966 and 1975, respectively, and
marked by a relative isolation from South American neighbors, Guyana and Suriname have
a timid foreign policy towards South America, characterized, among other aspects, by the
proximity with the Caribbean states. In both cases, the democratization experienced in
the early 1990s led to a reorientation and diversification of external relations, even though
it has not been, immediately, towards the South American countries.