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...most controversial woman in South American politics since Evita Peron is Janet Jagan, 42, the American-born wife of British Guiana's Premier Cheddi Jagan. Not only is she a white woman in a volatile land of East Indians and Negroes; she is also a strident Marxist and believed by many to be the brains and backbone behind her husband's Castro-lining government. Violent enemies call her "the devil...
...northeast coast. But she was a fire brand Young Communist Leaguer in Chicago long before Cheddi came on the scene to study dentistry at Northwestern in the late 19305. She hit it off with the ever-smiling East Indian, and when they returned as a married couple to British Guiana, Cheddi was making angry speeches condemning foreign "oppressors" and spouting the Marxist line. Wherever Cheddi went, Janet went too, making her own fiery speeches. She campaigned even when she was pregnant and ignored the rotten eggs thrown at her. "She was like a tiger in those days," remembers a Jagan...
...Progressive Party, now runs it as secretary-general and edits the party's Red-lining paper called Thunder. Associates are called "comrade," and last year she spent three weeks in East Berlin, Moscow and Peking talking trade and spreading the word about what was going on in British Guiana...
...activist," says Janet Jagan. "People either hate me to infinity or love me to death. I get caught in extremes." She denies that she has "the influence I'm supposed to have." Whether she does or not, British Guiana's husband and wife team has brought little besides economic stagnation and political upheaval to the country...
...went for the international Continental Congress of Solidarity with Cuba that planned to convene in Brazil last week. All of Fidel's overseas friends were expected: Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Russian Author Vanda Vasilevskaya, Mexico's ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas, British Guiana's Janet Jagan, and a couple hundred more. Castro planned to send a large delegation; placards were printed and street demonstrations planned to take place in São Paulo and Rio. The organizers felt so sure of themselves that they sent a delegation trooping into the office of Foreign...