No.1804311
Anon, thanks for the drop. I was just thinking about Guyana these days, mainly related to Venezuela. It seems like the Great Satan has somewhat cut some slack to Caracas at least for the moment, having issues with Russia, Palestine and the Red Sea - and obviously the usual big scary bogeyman of China - which they see as more urgent. I remember that in the last few months this thing about Venezuela preparing to attack Guyana popped up with a strange regularity while I was browsing google news or random videos on youtube - mainly in Italian, but I seem to remember something in English too.
I knew about the claim that Hugo Chavez revived many years ago over a large part of Guyana and now there's all those people saying Maduro wants "Guyana's oil" - as if Venezuela already haven't its own. Apparently the discovery of oil in Guyana meant a boom for the national economy, but I may be wrong, and I don't know if the benefits of this are widespread or if it's only for a few oligarchs and multinational oil companies. Also, last time I checked, the government in power seemed to be "on the left".
The Guyanas are quite a strange region in Latin America, because they're not even Latin, and are the only remnants of British, Dutch and French domination in South America. They have a large population of Indian and Javanese origin, while the French part is literally still a French region, meaning France have a land border with Brazil. Apart from that, the only real claim to fame of Guyana is the Jonestown Massacre, something that really smells of glow…
I'll check the book, I definitely need to study the issue.
Totally unrelated Yugopop in Hungarian from Vojvodina.
No.1804340
>>1804311>Apparently the discovery of oil in Guyana meant a boom for the national economy, but I may be wrong, and I don't know if the benefits of this are widespread or if it's only for a few oligarchs and multinational oil companies. It's mostly multinational oil companies and PPP oligarchs who also have connections in New York and Washington. The 2020 election was controversial with Granger refusing to recognize the election. The US came and reportedly made a deal with Jagdeo to push Granger out.The people of Guyana are getting some trickle cents from the oil money and mostly will not benefit. The American businessmen are already building up massive mansions and are segregated from the Guyanese population. The Guyanese government don't care because they are recieving a good check with the oil money. They are also starting to make Guyana have American military bases. Guyana is about to be ran like pre-revolution Cuba with wealthy Americans and their vassels. Right now its like British Guiana is returning with American Guiana:The return of the Anglo. There are even some shills that want Guyana to be the 51st state. Burnham and Jagan would be rolling in their graves to see the state of Guyana.Truth be told It would be better for Venezuela to annex the Esequibo just to give a domino effect to the Guyanese people. A good majority of Guyanese sympathetize with socialism but as the book will most likely mentioned Britain and the US dialed up racialism to divide Guyanese society. The CIA director also just did a recent visit and is trying to solidify a network their. The sooner Venezuela does something the better.
>Also, last time I checked, the government in power seemed to be "on the left".The PPP is a left party and was originally a ML party under Cheddi Jagan. There was people like Donald Ramotar who tried to bring back ML principles but failed due to how bankrupted the PPP has become post-Jagan. Jagdeo ran the PPP as a mafia money machine since 1999 and corruption had poison the ML faction completely. The PPP is also the "Indian" party and sometimes ramps up racialism for election victories. The PNC does this for black people as well but both parties are considered left but really fell from grace since the 90s. I'm going to read the book and see what they say about Burnham but that was the last time you can say Guyana was moving towards socialist development and then Jagan came in with the USSR collapsed and he basically said he is just a "humanist socialist". The collapse of the USSR was a big blackpill for the international socialist movement.
>Apart from that, the only real claim to fame of Guyana is the Jonestown Massacre, something that really smells of glow…It's interesting. Guyana under Burnham was connected to socialist countries and offered asylum for some socialists. Burnham allowed Jones to come in was to have a backup plan incase the Venezuelans came and invaded the esequibo. They were really ramping up rhetoric that they were going to invade in the 60s and 70s. They were also US backed capitalist while Guyana had just declared a socialist cooperative republic. Burnham thought if the Venezuelans killed some Americans then it is a good insurance that the US will be angry with Venezuelans to pressure them off of esequibo.
No.1804390
>>1804311>>1804340damn does /leftypol/ deliver, and quick.
>t. OP, just started the book. No.1804955
>>1804390Good to see we still have it in us.
No.1805003
>>1804285>he says the destruction of democracy in Guyana was the ugliest action by the US during the cold waryeah i listened to the RWN interview with him and found this claim to be way over the top, Korea and Vietnam were both easily far uglier. seems like its just a case of a scholar who is (unintentionally and understandably) overstating the significance of his research. no offense to him, it is good work, and good thread btw
No.1805031
>>1805003It might be the ugliest instance of sidelining a clearly popular politician and his party without outright killing them