Cheddi Jagan

Cheddi Berret Jagan ( born March 22, 1918 † 6 March 1997 ) was Prime Minister ( 1957-1964 ) and President (1992-1997) of Guyana.

As the son of Indian immigrants and plantation workers, he managed to complete the Queen's College High School in Georgetown. Later he studied at the Howard Dental School in Washington, DC and at Northwestern University in Chicago, before returning to his homeland early 1940s.

Shocked by the conditions there, founded the oral surgeon in 1950, together with his later rival Forbes Burnham, the socialist-oriented People's Progressive Party (PPP ). He was in 1947 elected to the colonial legislature and was a controversial leader of the Guyanese government in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

While Jagan won the colonial supervised elections of 1953, but Britain sent troops because they blamed him connections to the Soviet Union. After 133 days in office, Jagan resigned as prime minister. Then put the UK constitution and appointed a transitional government. Jagans freedom of movement was restricted from 1954 to 1957 in Georgetown.

After an election victory of his party in 1961 Jagan prime minister again. He promoted the trade union movement, improved the education system and the country's infrastructure. This social reform and also anti-colonial politics, however, he retired to the displeasure of both the British and the North Americans. The CIA began to mistrust and unrest in the country to sow. When the PPP in the elections of December 1964, with 46 percent, however was able to record the largest share of the vote, the British governor commissioned ado Burnham to form a government, which Jagan was off. In Tim Weiner's CIA: The whole story states:

1992 Jagan succeeded a "comeback": he was elected president. However, he had now broken with all the socialist orientations, and strengthened himself for deregulation in the sense of free market economy. Five years later, Jagan fell ( in Washington DC ) of a heart attack victim.

Jagan was married since 1943 with Janet Rosenberg, a former member of a communist youth organization, with whom he had two children. Janet Jagan followed in the footsteps of her husband and took over the offices of the Prime Minister and President in 1997. Their daughter PPP politicians, Nadira Jagan - Brancier, makes itself present by allegations of corruption unpopular. The son, Cheddi Jagan jun., Supports the current presidential candidate of the PPP.

As an important political writer and speechwriter Jagan also left several books, including Forbidden Freedom: The Story of British Guiana, The West On Trial: My Fight for Guyana 's Freedom and The USA in South America. In the capital, Georgetown, the ex-president dedicated a museum. In addition, wearing the international airport of Guyana, located about 40 km south of the capital, Jagans name.