The Associated Press: "GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Janet Jagan, a Chicago native who became Guyana's first white and first female president, died Saturday, a government official said. She was 88.
Jagan died at a state-run hospital of an abdominal aneurism, Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said.
Jagan, a Jewish woman and a naturalized Guyanese, was elected president of the English-speaking South American country in December 1997, succeeding her husband, Cheddi Jagan, who died earlier that year."
Jagan died at a state-run hospital of an abdominal aneurism, Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said.
Jagan, a Jewish woman and a naturalized Guyanese, was elected president of the English-speaking South American country in December 1997, succeeding her husband, Cheddi Jagan, who died earlier that year."
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