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The Military and the Politics of Change in Guyana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Ivelaw L. Griffith
Ivelaw L. Griffith*
Affiliation:
Lehman College, New York City
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The death of forbes burnham in August 1985 and the passing of power to Hugh Desmond Hoyte have produced dramatic changes in Guyana, South America's only English-speaking republic. Some of these have involved: (1) privatization of the public sector, (2) abolition of overseas voting, (3) negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), (4) rapprochement with the United States, plus (5) an agreement that observers — including former President Jimmy Carter and representatives from the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat—are being invited to oversee the upcoming elections scheduled for either August or September 1991.

Precipitated by domestic and international pressures, these changes have taken place within the context of a change in regimes as well, in which one dominant leader, Forbes Burnham, has been succeeded by another equally dominant, Desmond Hoyte.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , Summer 1991 , pp. 141 - 174
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Copyright © University of Miami 1991

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