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Article: From Chicago to Guyana: Janet Rosenberg Jagan takes over as president.
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- The Progressive
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- February 1, 1998
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When Janet Rosalie Rosenberg was born at Michael Reese Hospital on Chicago's South Side, the odds were a zillion to one that she'd one day be president of Guyana, South America's only English-speaking nation.
Yet when the seventy-seven-year-old, who describes herself as "an old fuddy-duddy," scored a decisive victory in the elections this past December, it came as no surprise to the people of Guyana. She has devoted more than fifty years of her life to this Idaho-sized country, which won independence from England in 1966.
Throughout her five decades of involvement in Guyanese politics, she and her husband, Cheddi Jagan, were jailed for their ...