The disputed national elections of 1957, 1961, 1964 and 1968 in Guyana helped define the boundaries of political and social life. Overall, these elections served to shore up the ethnic divide in an increasingly jaded population. In 1968, the ruling ruling party, the PNC (National People's Congress), began to "make moves" in the state and society aimed at consolidating its position. Indeed, the PNC, the more identifiably moderate of the two political parties, was considered "socialist" and the PPP retained its image as a "communist" organization well into the 1980s. For American and British politicians the ideological question was of the utmost importance. Indeed, when the country was engulfed in flames in three years of ethnic violence between Africans and Indians in 1962, 1963 and 1964, it was clear that the issue of communism had taken on serious concerns in Guyana.12 This was evident in the CIA's involvement in the 'assist the unions to weaken the PPP government. By the end of 1964, when the situation had calmed down, dozens of people had been killed and injured. The intervention of the Americans and the British in these disturbances and the participation of local politicians in that division had the effect of creating a simultaneous racial and ideological wedge in society at large. Shortly after American and British intervention spurred critical changes in the electoral system, the PNC regime, facilitated by an alliance with the conservative United Force political party, secured power in the 1964 elections.13. New World Group The first open challenge to “formal politics” was exemplified by the activities of the New World group in the early 1960s. Founded in 1963, the New World group and its revolutionary commitment to subverting governments in Latin America and the Caribbean allowed Guyana to take a radical position without appearing hostile. to the USA.18 This duality of good relations with Washington on the one hand, and with Cuba and the Third World, will be successfully “balanced” by the Burnham regime until 1985. In short, despite the diplomatic radicalization of the PNC foreign politics over the years '70, "Guyana-US relations never took the form of a direct confrontation nor reached the level of an irreparable rupture, with the exception of the Angolan issue in 1976. The sensitivity leadership's pragmatic approach to the realities of the American hemisphere presence exerted, to some extent, a moderating influence on the limits to which Guyana was willing to go to avoid a total breakdown in relations."19