Any major politicians from the Caribbean?

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

I feel that there's been alot of discussion around many European politicans/revolutionaries like Trotsky, Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, etc... As well as many Latin American leaders; Guevara, Castro, Zapata, etc.. with good reason due to the site itself.

Of course we must study these figures for they were defining ppl in larger society. However, what about the Caribbean? Was its only social conscience displayed through the likes of Bob Marley?

Does anyone know of any major polticians or revolutionaries from the Caribbean? (excluding Cuba and Latin America)

[Pete]

Fidel is from the Caribean.

[Ortega]

Fidel is from the Caribbean, Pete's right and all, but Knowledge did say "excluding Cuba," so I won't bother him about that...

Well, there haven't been all that many leaders from the Caribbean. But here are the few that I know of:

Nanny of the Maroons - Slave leader, Jamaica, 1720s (http://www.moec.gov.jm/heroes/nanny.htm)

Toussaint L'Ouverture - Slave leader, Haiti, 1793 (http://www.historywiz.com/toussaint.htm)

Marcus Garvey - Universal Negro Improvement Association founder and hero, Jamaica, early 1900s (http://www.moec.gov.jm/heroes/garvey.htm)

Maurice Bishop - Marxist revolutionary, Grenada, 1979 (http://www.awigp.com/default.asp?numcat=bishop)

There are plenty more, but I'll just leave you with those for now.

And then there are always the dictators...

Rafael Trujillo - Dictator, Dominican Republic, 1930-1961 (http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/social_science/latin_america/dominican_Republic.html)

Fulgencio Batista - Dictator, Cuba, 1952-1959 (http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/batista.htm)

"Papa Doc" Duvalier - Dictator, Haiti, 1957-1971 (http://www.giles.34sp.com/biographies/papadoc.htm)

[BOZG]

Don't forget Baby Doc aswell.

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

woah thanks for the links, never knew of these ppl...Thx ortega.

Any others? Other then Manley and Seaga in Jamaica during the 60s-70s period.

[Ortega]

Sir Alexander Bustamante, First Prime Minister of Jamaica (http://www.moec.gov.jm/heroes/bustamante.htm)

and the Jamaican National Heroes Site (http://www.moec.gov.jm/heroes/), where you'll find the rest of Jamaica's heroes...

[LuZhiming]

Originally posted by [email protected] 25 2004, 07:50 PM
Maurice Bishop - Marxist revolutionary, Grenada, 1979 (http://www.awigp.com/default.asp?numcat=bishop)
Yes, there's a great one. I would like to post this link: http://www.mts.net/~emanuel1/shopping/bishop.htm I think one really gets to know and love him easily after hearing him speak, and there are audio files at the bottom of the page.(My personal favorite being the one called Liberation :)) I strongly recommend this page to anyone who wants to know about Bishop.

[Urban Rubble]

Michael Manley wasn't a bad guy. Edward Seaga was a peice of shit.

Go read up on Trujillo and how the CIA had the bastard killed.

[Red Flag]

There was an uprising in the Dominican Republic in 1963 I believe, although i dont recall the names of anyone involved. I do know the events lead up to the US occupation of the Dominican Republic.

[Sabocat]

The Dominican Dictator:

Rafael Trujillo



The Dominican Republic suffered under the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo for thirty one years. With support of the United States General Rafael Molino Trujillo took control of the Dominican Republic in 1930 and ruled until his assassination in 1961. Trujillo amassed a huge fortune at the expense of his people while repressing all opposition. A movement of young Dominicans tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the dictatorship. However his rule was finally ended in 1961 when wealthy Dominicans unhappy with the dictator had him killed. In the twentieth century the Dominican Republic has not been able to establish a stable democratic government due several interventions by the US and the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo.

Read the rest: http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/so...n_Republic.html (http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/social_science/latin_america/dominican_Republic.html)



1963 – 1966
American Subversion and Tyranny in the Dominican Republic

From Killing Hope
by William Blum:

In February 1963, Juan Bosch took office as the first democratically elected president of the Dominican Republic since 1924. Here at last was John F. Kennedy’s liberal anti-Communist, to counter the charge that the U.S. supported only military dictatorships. Bosch’s government was to be the long sought “showcase of democracy” that would put the lie to Fidel Castro. He was given the grand treatment in Washington shortly before he took office.

Bosch was true to his beliefs. He called for land reform, low-rent housing, modest nationalization of business, and foreign investment provided it was not excessively exploitative of the country and other policies making up the program of any liberal Third World leader serious about social change. He was likewise serious about civil liberties: Communists, or those labeled as such, were not to be persecuted unless they actually violated the law.

A number of American officials and congresspeople expressed their discomfort with Bosch’s plans, as well as his stance of independence from the United States. Land reform and nationalization are always touchy issues in Washington, the stuff that “creeping socialism” is made of. In several quarters of the U.S. press Bosch was red-baited.

In September, the military boots marched. Bosch was out. The United States, which could discourage a military coup in Latin America with a frown, did nothing.

Nineteen months later, a revolt broke out which promised to put the exiled Bosch back into power. The United States sent 23,000 troops to help crush it.

http://free.freespeech.org/americanstatete...ml#DominicanRep (http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/ChronologyofTerror2.html#DominicanRep)