Severe verbal attacks against an “obviously nervous” Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, the protest pullout of a key diplomat confidant and mounting tensions with the aggrieved Americans led to the Government of Guyana (GOG) rejecting a Cheddi Jagan-proposed “strong anti-U.S resolution” on the 1976 Cubana Plane bombing, in the country’s Parliament.
Confidential documents released by the United States (US) Office of the Historian reveal that the State Department (SD) so piled on the pressure that by November 23, Burnham’s ruling People’s National Congress (PNC) quickly “squashed a strong anti-US resolution introduced by Opposition Leader, Dr. Jagan in Parliament” on the crash and “substituted a mild resolution which in no way implicated the US Government (USG) and contained no mention of
