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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...
...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 Minister Hermes Lima...
After prodding by the United Nations, Britain promised that negotiations would certainly resume this September. But the United Kingdom, under great pressure from the United States to enforce some kind of economic blockade of Cuba, has become increasingly concerned about Dr. Jagan's trade relations with the Castro regime. And it does not look as if the British government is in any hurry to grant independence to a neutralist Guiana...
...Jagan's government may be trying to strengthen economic ties with Cuba, but as yet it does not seem to have requested aid from the Soviet bloc countries. This does not mean, however that such aid has not been available. East Germany offered last spring to build ten factories, for example, and recently Soviet geologists discovered extensive oil fields in British Guiana--fields which similar American and British experts completely missed...
...this indicates that if the West doesn't come across soon with substantial capital loans, British Guiana may be driven from its present position of neutralism into much closer alignment with the Soviet nations. Dr. Jagan professes to believe in political democracy, even if he is a socialist in his economic orientation. Geographically and historically British Guiana identifies with the West. It would be unfortunate, then, if Dr. Jagan felt that economic necessity was forcing him into close alliance with Russian and Chinese Communism...