Word: guyana
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Small Network. In fact, Guyanese are far from united, but the country stands out in South America these days because of its surge toward a socialist economy. Guyana began nationalizing its major industries in 1971 with the takeover of the Canadian-owned Demerara Bauxite Co. Declaring that "I was always a socialist," Burnham has said that he hopes to establish not a Marxist state but a "cooperative republic"; so far, however, a network of small farming, marketing and labor cooperatives involves only a fraction of Guyanese society. Last week, as Opposition Leader Jagan noted with satisfaction, the government announced...
What really nettles Guyana's friends and neighbors is not Burnham's economic policies but the political rapprochement with Cuba. Burnham chilled relations with the Communist island in 1964, but in 1972 he not only recognized Cuba but urged such Caribbean countries as Jamaica and Barbados to do the same. Castro visited Guyana in 1975, and exchange programs began between the two countries. During Havana's Angolan offensive last winter, two empty Cuban planes returning from Africa refueled in Georgetown. Officially, Guyana has denied that a third plane, which stopped for fuel on its way to Angola...
Brazil charged that Cuba had found a new base from which to propagate Communism. Venezuela, because of a longstanding territorial claim to more than half the country, had more specific reasons to challenge Guyana. * The rightist newsweekly Venezuelan Resumen claimed the existence of three Communist military camps in Guyana, harboring more than 18,000 Cuban and -astonishingly-Chinese troops, all training revolutionaries...
Doctors on Loan. TIME'S Rio de Janeiro bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand visited Guyana last week and found no sign of any such occupying force. "Disregarding the 50 to 75 Cuban shrimp fishermen who use the capital as a port," he cabled, "they number barely more than the Americans. There are perhaps 20 diplomats and staff at the Cuban Embassy, ten language teachers, six doctors on loan, two or three staff members of Cubana Airlines and a team of technicians at an airport fuel depot...
Burnham has tried to evoke some conspiratorial themes of his own. Guyana, says the government, is being subjected to rumors "designed to shake the confidence of the country" and to economic pressure-meaning a reluctance on the part of banks and international agencies to lend money. In fact, Guyana can show no such reluctance from the World Bank or the Inter-American Loan Fund. Guyana also claims there has been an increase in Brazilian troop strength on the southern border; Hillenbrand found no signs of tension...