WE NEED ANOTHER MANLEY BADLY!!!
Michael Manley's newly elected government built up close ties with Fidel Castro's Cuba and brought in a wave of social reforms. Inevitably, this attracted the negative attention of the US.
After Michael Manley won a second election, the US stepped-up it's efforts to avoid "another Cuba." Political violence and unrest exploded in Jamaica resulting in many people losing their lives. This, coupled with the cutting of economic aid from the US put a severe strain on Manley's 'leftist' PNP government.