Janet Jagan, a Chicago native who became Guyana's first white and first female president, died Saturday, a government official said. She was 88.
Jagan died at a state-run hospital of an abdominal aneurism, Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said.
Jagan, a Jewish woman and a naturalized Guyanese, was elected president of the English-speaking South American country in December 1997, succeeding her husband, Cheddi Jagan, who died earlier that year.
At 77, she was the first white president of a country whose politics are polarized between its majority Guyanese of Indian descent the backbone of her ruling party and Afro-Guyanese, supporters of the opposition People's National Congress.
"My husband told me I should take over should anything happen to him," she told The Associated Press while contemplating her presidential run.
Opposition leaders repeatedly accused Jagan's government of racism and took to the streets in sometimes-violent protest. Jagan, in turn, claimed the opposition was trying to destabilize her government.
Citing reduced energy and stamina after suffering a mild heart attack, Jagan stepped down in August 1999, less than two years after taking office.
Jagan had lived in the former British Guiana, situated on the Caribbean in northern South America, since 1943. She met her husband in Chicago, where he was a dentist studying for his doctorate at Northwestern University. She was his assistant.
After they moved to his native Guyana, both hard-line communists became active in politics. British and American administrations blocked Cheddi Jagan from power for decades, alarmed by his ties to Cuba and Moscow. She endured three years of house arrest and five months in jail with her husband in the 1950s, when he first won an election.
Cheddi Jagan got to rule Guyana in 1992, but he died before serving a full term.
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really have so stupid and racist people on this site,burnham did some good for guyana and he did some bad too,but to say burnham was all bad is wrong,jagan burnham was friends until he died,i hate when these people come on this site talking shit read up on some history.
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I see some ppl are still ignorant. When the Nigga them were screwing with the indians, no one was doing anything, Now that jannet finally broke that barrier and all u muddas are mad now. i say fuck the niggers.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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Burnham was a far better leader. He was a leader for all the people not just the indians. Racism is the downfall of Guyana. Believe that!
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Janet
I have to agree with Fairman!!! We should not forget the past and what was done to us by one of out sons!! So if a "stranger" screwed the masses, its not so bad!!
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Monday, April 6, 2009
A true LEADER!!!
For all of those who said she was "white, racist" where was alou skunt when Burnham was doing worse to the Guyanese population!! Mudda rass!!
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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Guyana is pleased to finally announce the death of white Jezibel Janet Jagan former head of the Guyana Punish Poor People Party aka PPP.
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Guyana is pleased to finally announce the death of white Jezibel Janet Jagan former head of the Guyana Punish Poor People Party aka PPP.
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