Hoyte, Desmond

Hoyte, Desmond
▪ 2003

      Guyanese politician (b. March 9, 1929, Georgetown, Guyana—d. Dec. 22, 2002, Georgetown), became president of Guyana after the death of Forbes Burnham in 1985 and soon thereafter began dismantling Burnham's socialist framework. As leader of the People's National Congress (PNC) and president with expanded powers under the 1980 constitution, Hoyte wielded immense power. He angered many within the PNC when he began courting foreign investors and making peace with the International Monetary Fund in order to stanch rising poverty and the national debt. He helped launch the Guyana literary prizes and was instrumental in helping to create the Iwokrama project, a conservation area in the Guyana forests. After losing the 1992 presidential election, the first to be termed fair since 1964, Hoyte remained a formidable force in opposition and blocked attempts by the People's Progressive Party to make constitutional changes and establish a race relations commission.

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