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Guyana-History-Section 1 (Overview of Guyana
Guyana was a sort…
Guyana-History-Section 1
Overview of Guyana
Guyana was a sort of an anomoly. It was the only country without an iberian heritage in S.America. It was a plantation colony, and the ethnic composition is made up of labor that was brought over for plantation work (Rabe chapter 4-most dangerous place in the world.
abolition of slavery led to the importation of indentured workers from India, in fact the great grand parents of Jagan were descendants of these Indians's Jagan was born to a poor family in Port Mourant (Rabe cold war story)
After arriving back to Guyana in the Jagan, Janet and several others would start a political action commitee (Rabe cold war story) this would later in to the poples progressive party and during this time a newly minted black lawyer by the name of Forbes Burnham would join the PPC. And they would contest for an election in the colony in 1953
1953 Election
This was a watershed moment in the countries history, and the British seemed to have been concerned about communist affiliations of the British
Churchill is to have said that we ought to send Sen Mcarthy to Guyana (Rabe book pg 39) N.L Maynee of the colonial office noted that Jagan was very much a communist, and also visited the Youth festivals in Berlin. Accordingly, it is evident that during this period, it was the British who were concerned about a communist take over in Guyana
In fact the British jailed Jagan in 1953 for introducing a labor relations bill, and they through that Guyana was on the slippery slope of communism (Parekh 1999)- The british however would considerably change their views in the years to come, and claim that Jagan was just a muddled thinker. Also see Rabe book page (40) for a list of accuslation the British leveled against Jagan for being a communist . Also governor savage would suspend the constitution and take control of the colony (
But by the 1960's the UK government had eased their fears about Jagan. This was especially the case under the Mcmillan government (see Rabe book pg 62)
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see FRUS 243- British Ambassador to the US Cessia though that Jagan provided the most responsible leadership to the country
Rabe(book) however says that US administration interest was very little during this period-in fact the US consulate in Guyana was closed in 1953 to save money
Rable (book) claims that Allen Dulles briefed president eisenhower about the events and sent a telgram that said "total evidence" suggests that a plan existed to establish a commie center (pg 53) Fraser (2000) says that the Eisenhower administration had endorsed the British intervention in the Guyanese elections
Essentially claims that the Eisenhower administation forgot about Guyana after the 1953 elections, and during this period the labor movement was more interested in Guyana than the administration. Claims that Romuldi worried more about Guyana than Eisenhwower (Rabe book pg 57) also see pg (37) Claims that Romuldi was the first to accuse Jagan of being communist, and Richard Lovestone another labor leader dispatched a Rutgers political scientist to study the events in Guyana
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in 1955 The PPP would split along ethnic lines, with Burnham leading a afro -Guyanese wing, there would be another election in 1957, and Jagan's PPP would win this election
Daniels (2000) claims that after the split with the PPP, Burnham moderated his stance of socialism, a followed a middle path between Jagan's socialism and D' Aguiar's capitalism
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