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However, history is full of examples that would tend to indicate that the United States' foreign policy is driven by racism and bias against gender. Take for example, the Cold War situation of British Guyana. In his book entitled U.S. Intervention in British Guiana: A Cold War Story, author Stephen G. Rabe tells the story of a massive United States covert intervention between 1953 and 1969. It is Rabe's contention that the foundation of this covert intervention was a basis of gender bias and racism on the part of the United States Government.

What is today known as Guyana was at one time a colony of Great Britain. In the 1960's, Guyana was set to gain its independence. However, government officials in the Kennedy and Johnson White Houses were concerned that the a newly independent Guyana would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan.

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Jagan was a popular Marxist leader among the country's South Asian majority.

According to Rabe's research, the CIA provided funding through a program administered by the AFL-CIO in order to help create labor unrest, race riots and general chaos in the period leading up to independence. The result of this was that Jagan was removed from leadership in 1964 and Forbes Burnham, whom the United States preferred, began what would be a twenty-year dictatorship that was highlighted by gross human rights violations against the Indian majority.

According to Rebe, the reason for the United States involvement was a general racism against Jagan. Jagan was an ethnic Indian who was educated at Howard University in Washington D.C. The United States feared such a powerful non-white in a country within their part of the world......

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