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This article calls into question the conventional narrative about international meddling in British Guiana, which argues that US intervention against the Leftist government of Premier Cheddi Jagan was the proximate cause for the colony's racial violence as it moved to independence. The authors focus on the violent pro-government sugar workers' strike of 1964 and in particular the role of Jagan's wife, Janet, presenting evidence from retired Cuban intelligence agents that Cuba countered US aid to the opposition by providing paramilitary training to Guianese cadres and laundering financial aid to Jagan's government. This outside intervention turned British Guiana into a Cold War sideshow.'We have the misfortune to have occurred in the wrong hemisphere', lamented British Guiana's Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan in the months before he was voted out of office. Jagan's government had suffered two general strikes, riots, arson, and race war, which laid the groundwork for his democratic ouster from power. Jagan correctly believed that he had been the victim of an alliance among his domestic opponents, the

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