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Re: What is this,Bush's jamaican Mutt?!?!
Tuff Gong,
Chapter 43 of William Blum's "Killing Hope" deals in detail with the various measures and "incidents" that were used to destabilize the Manley government.
"U.S. Intervention in Jamaica: How Washington Toppled The Manley Government" by Ernest Harsch is another publication that obviously deals with the topic in some detail.
The fact that the Cold War was very much alive in the late 70's and early 80's and that U.S foreign policy has long been predicated on the opposition, overturning and, at times, invasions to overthrow socialist leaning governments in the hemisphere should be enough to convince you that the U.S through it's usual means: the CIA was not going to allow Jamaica to go the way of Cuba.
The Grenada invasion some three years later is also clear evidence of that foreign policy.
It's a long-standing and clear foreign policy.
If the U.S found it necessary to invade tiny Grenada, what makes you think that they would permit Jamaica with a population of some three million to take a turn to the left especially when U.S companies had a financial interest in Jamaica's bauxite?
It flies in the face of logic to assume that the U.S having invaded or interferred in countries like Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Argentina, Guyana because of their leaning left would simply ignore Jamaica.
The influx of illegal weapons, the poisoning of rice and wheat shipments to Jamaica, the threatening visit by Henry Kissinger and 70 others and all the other unpleasnt events that occurred at the end of Manley's term in office MAY have all been coincidental but it would take a huge stretch to simply say that the U.S (and the CIA) were not actively involved.
It is and was what the United States has been doing for 100 years.
Answer me this: Why wouldn't the U.S try to overthrow Manley and a left -leaning Jamaica? Why would Jamaica be immune from the Monroe Doctrine?
Tuff Gong,
Chapter 43 of William Blum's "Killing Hope" deals in detail with the various measures and "incidents" that were used to destabilize the Manley government.
"U.S. Intervention in Jamaica: How Washington Toppled The Manley Government" by Ernest Harsch is another publication that obviously deals with the topic in some detail.
The fact that the Cold War was very much alive in the late 70's and early 80's and that U.S foreign policy has long been predicated on the opposition, overturning and, at times, invasions to overthrow socialist leaning governments in the hemisphere should be enough to convince you that the U.S through it's usual means: the CIA was not going to allow Jamaica to go the way of Cuba.
The Grenada invasion some three years later is also clear evidence of that foreign policy.
It's a long-standing and clear foreign policy.
If the U.S found it necessary to invade tiny Grenada, what makes you think that they would permit Jamaica with a population of some three million to take a turn to the left especially when U.S companies had a financial interest in Jamaica's bauxite?
It flies in the face of logic to assume that the U.S having invaded or interferred in countries like Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Argentina, Guyana because of their leaning left would simply ignore Jamaica.
The influx of illegal weapons, the poisoning of rice and wheat shipments to Jamaica, the threatening visit by Henry Kissinger and 70 others and all the other unpleasnt events that occurred at the end of Manley's term in office MAY have all been coincidental but it would take a huge stretch to simply say that the U.S (and the CIA) were not actively involved.
It is and was what the United States has been doing for 100 years.
Answer me this: Why wouldn't the U.S try to overthrow Manley and a left -leaning Jamaica? Why would Jamaica be immune from the Monroe Doctrine?
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