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Reply to "Jagan and his communist gang."

Okay, Shaitaan, I take that as a green light. I will proceed to respond to Chief.

Cheddi Jagan was never against the American people. He married an American and had close American friends, like the singer Paul Robeson. Boxing champ Muhamad Ali was also an acquaintance of Dr Jagan's.

Cheddi Jagan viewed the USA from a class standpoint. He expressed solidarity with the American working class but was vehemently against the policies and practices of the American ruling-corporate class.

That was the Age of Imperialism and the Cold War. The United States unilaterally assumed for itself the role of guardian-police of the western hemisphere. It sent CIA agents and troops to destabilize and overthrow governments that refused to accept US diktat. Jagan suffered personally from that interference during the early 1960s.

That aside, Jagan held the warmest feelings for ordinary Americans. He didn't object when his son Joey chose to live in America. And, whenever Jagan visited and met Guyanese, he hidn't tell them "you all must leave America and go to live in Russia and Cuba."

In fact, Russia and Cuba at that time had closed their doors to immigrants. They would not have accepted Guyanese as permanent residents.

 

 

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