Though Janet Jagan’s parents fretted about what she revealed in a 1954 letter, they weren’t surprised. They were inured to their daughter going down roads they wouldn’t dare set foot on.

The most controversial woman in South American politics since Evita Peron is Janet Jagan, 42, the American-born wife of British Guiana's Premier Cheddi Jagan. Not only is she a white woman in a ...

Born Janet Rosenberg in Chicago in 1920, she married Jagan and moved to Guyana in 1943. The former journalist was an advocate for the rights of women and workers throughout the Caribbean and in ...

Janet Jagan, 88, a Chicago nursing student who became Guyana's first white and first female president decades after immigrating to the region, died March 28 at the country's state-run Georgetown ...

Janet Jagan was an anomaly: Born Janet Rosenberg in Chicago, she married a Guyanese man in the United States and moved with him to Guyana in 1947.

Jagan still clamors for independence from Britain. But London, which had originally hoped to cut British Guiana loose last year, suspended all talks after a series of riots in February 1962.