Churchill overthrew Jagan in Guyana

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'After the party won a huge majority in British Guiana's 1953 election, making Cheddi Jagan prime minister, Churchill decided to act. "We ought surely to get American support in doing all that we can to break the communist teeth in British Guiana," he wrote to his colonial secretary. In the end, Britain acted alone, mounting a military operation codenamed Operation Windsor. Churchill dispatched a warship, HMS Superb, and brought hundreds of troops by air and sea to secure key sites. On 9 October, Britain suspended British Guiana's constitution, fired its legislators and arrested the Jagans.'

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