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Reply to "PPP preparing for the long journey into the wilderness."

Bibi Haniffa posted:
Mars posted:
Chief posted:

Let's not forget Burnham outwitted D'Guiar and the Portuguese as well.

D'Aguiar opted out of the coalition when he got wind of Burnham illegally rigging the voting in '68. The Portuguese responded by selling out their assets and moving to Toronto (mostly after nationalization in the early 70's), leaving Burnham and his followers to implode, so who really was outwitted?

D'Aguiar didn't opt out of the coalition.  He was kicked out.  Chief is right, the Portuguese were outwitted.  They thought they would get political power and rights under the PNC and that never happened.  They did pack up and run away to Canada leaving successful businesses and homes behind.  Many never returned to their homes in Nabaclis, Belfield, Victoria, and parts of the Essequibo among other places which were considered Portuguese communities. 

Know your history Madame. Don't believe every lil nonsense you heard as PPP bottom house gaff. A rift developed between Burnham and D'Aguiar after D'Aguiar saw the plans for rigging the 1968 elections with overseas voting. Rather than be a part of the 1968 rigged elections, D'Aguiar did the honorable thing and resigned from the government even after the Americans (Ambassador Carlson) and Burnham were trying to get him to stay. In contrast, your hero Jagan joined forces with Burnham in Critical Support of the PNC just a couple years after the PNC had rigged both the 1968 and the 1973 elections. The only fool who was outwitted by Burnham was his Commie partner Jagan. 

http://www.guyana.org/features...ndence/chapter1.html

 A final progress report on "Support to Anti-Jagan political parties in Guyana", prepared for the 303 Committee on 21 November 1968 by the State Department, noted that the elections would be held on 16 December 1968. The report described "the problems facing Burnham stemming from his having padded the registration lists in the United Kingdom excessively in an attempt to win an outright majority in the elections. This report also notes the security implications arising from Peter D'Aguiar's having become aware of this padding and his efforts to counter it."


Ambassador Delmar Carlson, met with Burnham in early June 1967, and in a telegram sent to the State Department he revealed Burnham's plans to rig the votes in the next elections:

During that meeting, Carlson also suggested to Burnham that he should continue to work closely with D'Aguiar and his United Force. Burnham was already having difficulties working with D'Aguiar, and the ambassador suggested that the solution to this problem "lay less in engineered majority than it did by arranging for D'Aguiar's honorable withdrawal from politics and government after the election is won and a new coalition government formed."

Despite Carlson's best efforts to encourage a working relationship with Burnham, D'Aguiar resigned from the cabinet on 26 September 1967.


http://www.guyana.org/features...ndence/chapter2.html

United Force leader Peter D'Aguiar who helped bring Burnham and his PNC to power in 1964, stated in shock and amazement at the unbridled electoral thievery that occurred:"To call it an election is to give it a name it does not deserve; it was a seizure of power by fraud, not election." But the early epitaph of PNC electoral fraud was etched by another UF member, Randolph Cheeks, who was Minister of Local Government in the PNC-UF coalition. In an unforgettable comment he declared: "Fraud is a mild word to describe the motions which Guyana went through on December 16. . . Down the corridors of the centuries, this day will be remembered with shame."

Mars
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