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🔴Jamaica Was Already Caught in Washington’s Debt Trap Before Michael Manley, and It Remained Trapped Afterward
Clip From the 2001 Classic Documentary:
Life and Debt
Michael Manley did not invent Jamaica’s crisis; Jamaica was already a neocolonial dependent state, tied to foreign capital, foreign markets, and foreign lenders long before he took office. The real center of the problem was Washington: power, international finance, and IMF-style discipline kept Jamaica trapped in debt and dependency well before Manley, and tightened that trap afterward. You can criticize Manley’s government, but blaming him alone erases the deeper truth that Jamaica had already been structured to serve external interests, not its own people. What Manley confronted was not a healthy independent economy, but a debt-ridden neocolonial order, and every attempt to move beyond it was met with pressure from Washington and the institutions it dominated.
Betty James@BettyJa77533964
@lowchelsea1712 Michael Manley did not consider the economic devastation that would reach the Jamaican population when he trumpeted to walk hand in hand with Castro to the mountain top. His policy of democratic socialism closely aligned to Fidel Castro communism landed the country in mess.
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