He then moved his people to Guyana when he came under criticism for church beatings and financial abuses. Escape from Jonestown Thirty years ago, more than 900 people died by murder and suicide.

“I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled. Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand, I just feel like any ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana is revisiting a dark history nearly half a century after US Rev. Jim Jones and more than 900 of his followers died in the rural interior of the South American country.