Davis found that the country's prime minister, Michael Manley—a staunch democratic socialist at the end of his first four-year term—primarily won by appealing to an impoverished, majority-Black population.
He helped establish co-op farms, incentivized unionizing, and increased the levy on bauxite—the raw material used to make aluminum—so it would not be subject to market prices dictated by Canada and the United States.
Though it has never been proven, there were informed hunches that these decisions attracted the CIA's attention who, as a result, helped destabilize Jamaica's economy.
The depths of desperation and tension brewing for the greater part of a decade went much deeper.
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