US warns against travel to unruly French Guiana

The United States warned its citizens Friday to avoid travel to French Guiana, France's South American territory now in the grip of labor unrest.Striking workers in the territory, which is administered as a region of France, have set up barricades on several roads and forced the postponement of an Ariane rocket.The US embassy in neighboring Suriname can only provide limited assistance to travelers, it said, and added: "US citizens should avoid travel to French Guyana at this time.