Guyana

The socialist rhetoric of President Forbes Burnham's regime contrasted strikingly with the ugly details of his personalist and authoritarian rule. Guyana: Fraudulent Revolution analyses these contradictions in the context of the country's history from its days as a slave colony, through the violent era that preceeded independence in the 1960s, to Burnham's presidency. It tells the story of the racial manipulation, violence and political fraud that have become the hallmarks of the Burnham regime.