Mars posted:Bibi Haniffa posted:But somebody got double crossed here big time. Why would Castro support Chandisingh's crossing to the PNC, when the PNC was being orchestrated by the US? This is some deep seated politics going on here. In the US this would have been a movie!!!
Burnham made a left turn away from the U.S. at this time. He was in cahoots with Castro and Jagan and they were all taking orders from their Soviet bosses. Castro was the facilitator used by the Russians to bring Burnham and Jagan together in an unholy alliance (Critical Support and later National Front Government) which was used to nationalize the main industries in Guyana.
You have to take into consideration the context of the times. Fidel was committed to the struggle in South Africa. Both Africans and East Indians were experiencing hell from the Boar there. The South African apartheid government was playing up the leftist angle of the South African freedom movement to get American support. Fidel saw what the battle between the PNC and PPP had done to the Guyana society. For him it was self defeating for these two parties to fight each other. Merger between the PNC and PPP was the only way forward.