Zed posted:You throw out words without really knowing what you are talking about.
1. It was the Monroe doctrine that dictated American foreign policy in tthe West Indies and Latin America. Not McCarthyism.
2. Obviously you have problems with political concepts. In no way can Jagan in 1992be classified as a despot., unless of course if you are delusional or make up your own definitions outside of the scholarly ones. Please look at the remarkable social and economic changes initiated under Jagan's presidency. And please do not give me that PNC economic pseudo analysis that postulates that the growth under the PPPmrule was aresult of HOyte's economic policies.
3. Jagdeo find not make the PNC toothless, there were many demonstrations and many have argued that the nature of Jagdeo!'s rule resulted in the formation of the AFC and the resulting Granger election which threw Jagdeo and the PPP out of power.
Nonsense, curbing the spread of communism was the priority of the Americans back in Cheddi's time. You seem to forget that Janet was communist.
Go argue with the NY times.
A dentist by training, Dr. Jagan rode the aspirations of Guyana's downtrodden Indian majority to power at a young age. But he was also a Marxist-Leninist of the pro-Soviet mold, which led to clashes with Churchill, who thought him a Communist puppet, and John F. Kennedy, who feared he aspired to install a ''second Cuba'' on the northern coast of South America
Many of you Jaganites will bury your head in the sand and deny that he was joker of low regard in the West.
As for Jaggy, yes he tamed the PNC, the frighten the man like six months in jail. They almost had a heart attack when they thought he would run for a 3rd term. Meanwhile do your research and see that it was under Jagdeo that the street protests by the PNC diminished to benign levels. Possibly due to phantomizing on a large scale.