Peter D'Aguiar

[8] That year, D'Aguiar's group began negotiations with Forbes Burnham, the leader of the People's National Congress (PNC).

The Eisenhower administration was increasingly alarmed by the prospect of a domino effect in South America after the radicalisation of Fidel Castro's Cuba, and sought to nip it in the bud in British Guiana.

The U.S. soon began providing D'Aguiar's network with anti-Communist material created by the U.S. Information Agency, which was shown on Georgetown street corners without attribution.

The party compensated for its elitism by soliciting the Amerindian vote, and went on to win 16.38% in the 1961 elections,[6] gaining four seats on the Legislative Assembly, including D'Aguiar himself.

[16] In October 1968, D'Aguiar joined hands with Jagan in walking out of the National Assembly, prompted by Burnham's electoral fraud in preparation for the fake elections of 1968, to be held in December.

[17] D'Aguiar appeared with Jagan in a January 1969 documentary by Granada Television, The Making of a Prime Minister, bewailing the fate of Guyana.