Guyana's Cheddi Jagan (1918-1997) is arguably the most controversial political leader in the history of the English-speaking Caribbean. He was the first politician of Indian ancestry to lead his country, and was the only major leader in the Region who not only adopted Marxism, but fervently embraced the then Soviet system as the instrument and example for the transformation of colonies like his native British Guiana, from poverty and underdevelopment...