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.
Gilly, human kind has lived in a world that they take as is and try to change it where they can. There have been people and movements that have tried to make idealism a fact on the ground but did not succeed.
As an astute politician and a man who witnessed the injustices suffered by Black Americans while at Howard and Guyanese while under British colonial rule, he tried to reverse these injustices. He was a hero on the domestic front, resulting in social and economic changes as well as giving locals more of a say in determining the future of their country.
Where Dr. Jagan departed from this astuteness was in foreign policy. He recognized that the major countries of the North were in a Cold War and while the South was peripheral there were geo-strategic considerations at play. The most important one was the Monroe Doctrine, period. With America, like it's behavior after 9/11, there were no compromises.
While one can support Cuba's right to self-determination Dr. Jagan had to be cognizant of Cuba's role (not only domestically with its own Blacks, as Caribny would point out) but with the Soviet Union and the missile crisis. He SHOULD have expected CIA intervention and the installation of the Burnham regime, and should NOT have courted it. It would not have destroyed his socio-political credentials and would have served Guyana good.
He was guided by the British Labor Party economics and that would have steered him to the middle instead of being branded anti-market and anti-fee enterprise. But alas the romantic notions of the East-West Cold war got the better of him.
However you might view his characterization of the USA - its people and government - he blundered tragically in the Cuba-Monroe Doctrine-Soviet Missile Crisis, and we paid for it.