Sweet Guadalupe

Please tell me about Guadalupe. I think that it is an island 'country' in the southern Caribbean. Its not a dream you're see'n.

I think that the name Guadalupe had sacred currency in Spain before it did in Mexico.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Columbus had been to the island.

Okay, I'm checking. Columbus was there on his second voyage to the New World. He probably found pineapples there. Good ones. Sweet.

The French came along and made such good money selling sugar from the island that the had to fight off the English. The French brought African slaves to work that sugar. Sweet. They probably bought most of them from the English. Sweet.

I'm finding out a few things, but I wish you would please tell me more.

People sponsored by the French Company of the Americas killed off most of the Carib (Arawak) people before the island was annexed by the Kingdom of France in 1674. The French and the English struggled over the island and its sugar for 100 years. Sweet.

Then the people of the island began to struggle among themselves and with  others. Some struggled for power, some for freedom from unjust exploitation, for freedom from France, freedom from slavers, some struggled for freedom from Swedes and Englishman. Most struggled for something. Sweet.

What are their struggles today? What is truly sweet in their lives?

I understand that they are now mostly Roman Catholic African-French creole speaking people. How am I wrong? Please tell me something. What do the call themselves.
 most for both.