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Date Posted: 11:19:48 02/14/03 Fri
In reply to:
Rage
's message, "Emigration" on 14:18:06 12/29/02 Sun
This is some interesting info I got from this site while browsing google.
url: http://www.doublestandards.org/usmurder.html#guyana
1953 — 1964
American/British Overthrow of the Democratically-Elected President of Guyana
For 11 years, two of the oldest democracies in the world, Great Britain and the United States, went to great lengths to prevent a democratically elected leader from occupying his office. Cheddi Jagan was another Third World leader who tried to remain neutral and independent. He was elected three times. Although a leftist-more so than Sukarno or Arbenz — his policies in office were not revolutionary. But he was still a marked man, for he represented Washington's greatest fear: building a society that might be a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model. Using a wide variety of tactics — from general strikes and disinformation to terrorism and British legalisms, the U. S. and Britain finally forced Jagan out in 1964. John F. Kennedy had given a direct order for his ouster, as, presumably, had Eisenhower.
One of the better-off countries in the region under Jagan, Guyana, by the 1980s, was one of the poorest. Its principal export became people.
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