Django posted:seignet posted:Doan blame Forbes, CBJ removed the checks and balances for him by simply being anti-British and anti-American.
Siege,
During the colonial era,for a country to achieve self Government,leaders had to be anti-British and anti-imperialist,one have to understand the tug of war during that period was Capitalism an Communism,Jagan took the Communist path,which the Capitalist America wasn't going to be allowed in their back yard,he paid the price for his ideology,civil war break break and Burnham came to power,from 1964 to date what Guyana achieved politically ? a new tug of war evolved between the two parties,one rigging to stay in power,after free and fair elections the other held on to power because of their majority ethnic support and the cycle continues.That country can only change when the people decides to make the changes,until then it will the same Indos against Afros.
No Caribbean Island had that problem of a communist party.
A smart ppl, black, eurocentric and loved the monarch. Imagine, these ppl, enslaved for hundreds of years and yet when emancipated displayed gratitude to the monarch whose ancestors offered Rights to Slave Trade the African.
How can the Whites of Britian and American permit black ppl to be enslaved by communism in Guyana. If CBJ could not grasp that simple fact, then he had to be a dunce.
Returning to the seat of power, he let opportunities to ease race relations slipped by, so many times. The man never had Guyana's interests at heart.