African diaspora in the Americas Lucia (85%), Grenada (82%), Martinique (80%), Guadeloupe (77%), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (66%), Bermuda (55%), Brazil (8%), Cuba (35%), Puerto Rico (16%), Belize (31%), Trinidad and Tobago (34.2%), Nicaragua (9%), Panama (14%), United States (13.6%), Colombia (10.52%), Guyana (36%), Suriname (37%), French Guiana (66%), Dominican Republic (10%), Costa Rica (8%), Paraguay (4%), Uruguay (4%), Canada (3.5%) and Venezuela (2.9%). After the United States achieved independence came the independence of Haiti, a country populated almost entirely by people of African descent and the second American colony to win its independence. After the process of independence, many countries have encouraged European
East-West Link (Suriname) by Pitou van Dijk, the Linden-Paramaribo section has only secondary priority with IIRSA at the moment. The East-West Link has a ferry connection with Guyana on the western side since 1998, connecting South Drain with Moleson Creek. In the east there has been a ferry between Albina and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni in French Guiana since 1969. Within the framework of the IIRSA, the Suriname Planning Bureau has done some studies on the incorporation of the East-West Link in the Pan-American Highway. Suriname has been part of the Pan-American Highway project since 1982. Apart from the reconstruction of the East West Link as