Top Ten Lists, Obscure World Capitals, Latin America Edition

You know you are getting old when you make a comment like 'don't drink the Kool Aid' and a 19-year-old kid who is going to Duke University in Durham, NC, and should thus be smarter than you,doesn't get the joke.

But back in 1978, one psychotic minister named Jim Jones did indeed orchestrate a mass suicide of around 900 people, most of whom had followed Jones from San Fransico to the small country of Guyana in the northeast corner of South America.

Guyana is one of ten countries that we are listing here as we give the names of various capital cities in Latin America.


1. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean)

2. Paramaribo, Suriname (South America)

3. Quito, Ecuador (South America)

4. Bridgetown, Barbados (Caribbean)

5. Georgetown, Guyana (South America)

6. Asuncion, Paraguay (SA)

7. St. George's, Grenada (Car.)

8. Belmopan, Belize (Central America)

9. Managua, Nicagua (CA)

10. San Jose, Costa Rica (CA)