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...Jewish nursing student from Chicago who accompanied her Guyanese husband back to his native land. The pair got involved in leftist politics, and decades later, Janet Jagan, 88, succeeded her deceased spouse as President of Guyana to become the first woman to lead the nation...
...since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices, to acute shortages of even basic foodstuffs, a foreign debt of $1 billion, increasing unrest and repression and a "brain drain...
DIED. CHEDDI JAGAN, 78, President of Guyana; in Washington, where he had been hospitalized after a heart attack. An avowed Marxist, Jagan was elected premier in 1953, and again in '57 and '61, while Guyana was still a British colony, but his grip on power was repeatedly sabotaged by British and U.S. machinations. Jagan later adopted free-market principles, and after nearly three decades in opposition, made a comeback in 1992 in what was hailed as the country's first free election in 28 years...
...billion foreign debt load, an amount 10 times its gross domestic product. In 1991 the government of President Desmond Hoyte granted a Malaysian-Korean joint venture called Barama Co. Ltd. the rights to log 4.2 million acres in the country's northwest. When voters elected former Marxist Cheddi Jagan as President in 1992, Guyanese conservationists urged him to revoke that concession; instead Jagan toured Southeast Asia at Barama's expense, and his government is considering bids that would put roughly 75% of Guyana's timber under foreign control...
...took 39 years, but at the age of 74, Cheddi Jagan finally made it. Long an avowed Marxist, Jagan has been contesting elections in the South American nation of Guyana (pop. 751,000) since 1953, when it was a British colony. He claims to have won several but says he was kept from serving out his mandates by British or American CIA machinations or by vote fraud. Last week he won yet another vote, and this time the loser, President Desmond Hoyte, urged Guyanans to accept the result and allow Jagan, who now supports free-market policies, to become head...