[robjwells]

Comparing Jagan and Burnham to (respectively) Trotsky and Stalin is extremely strange. Jagan was perceived as a threat to British interests in Guyana, Burnham was deemed acceptable if unreliable.

Britain sent warships and 700 troops to oust Jagan in 1953, suspending the constitution, and later worked (with the US) to ensure Jagan could not reach the top job again. To be clear, Jagan’s PPP had won 75% of the seats in a democratic election.

An AP report on declassified MI5 documents about the 1953 coup: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/26/mi5-files-coup...

A good summary of the post-'53 machinations by historian Mark Curtis: https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-sooner-we-get-these-peopl...