Guiana is a country that hath yet her maidenhead, never sacked, turned, nor wrought; (…) The graves have not been opened for gold, the mines not broken (…) It hath never been entered by any army of strength, and never conquered or possessed by any Christian prince." -Sir Walter Raleigh, The Discover of Guiana Since 1594, when British colonizer Sir Walter Raleigh wrote this on his search for the golden city of El Dorado, many have sacked the area now en­­compassed by modern day Guyana. Boxite, Gold and diamonds are just some of the re­sources ex­tracted in Guyana by foreign entities.