| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story. By Stephen G. Rabe. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. xii, 240 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2979-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5639-8.)

Contrary to popular misunderstanding, neither Salvador Allende (Chile, 1973) nor Jacobo Arbenz (Guatemala, 1954) was the first political leader in the Americas to fall victim to Cold War Realpolitik. In 1953 Winston Churchill determined that the popularly elected government of British Guiana, led by Dr. Cheddi Jagan and his People's Progressive Party (PPP), should be removed. Against the advice of his man on the ground, Gov. Alfred Savage, and his own intelligence service, the prime minister suspended the constitution of the British colony to prevent Communist subversion of the government and a dangerous crisis both in public order and economic affairs. Despite his somewhat Marxist rhetoric, Jagan was little more than a social democrat. For two generations after this extraordinary event, democracy in British Guiana (which became the independent nation of Guyana in 1966) would be sacrificed to Cold War expediency.

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