Jamaica United Front
The Jamaica United Front was a political party in Jamaica.
It was a right wing small party and was first noticed when in 1980 it proposed a national unity government of the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party.
They were involved in an attempted coup on June 23, 1980. The leader, Charles Johnson, had been a member of the United States Army, serving in Vietnam and was running a security company in Kingston. The coup was seen by the left as a plot by the CIA and by the Jamaican Labour Party as an excuse to bring in troops from Cuba prior to elections. Johnson was acquitted in 1981 when a witness was judged to be unreliable.
It contested one seat in the 1983 Jamaican general election. The elections that year saw a mass boycott as the People's National Party protested against the government. The JUF received only 144 votes and failed to win a seat. It did not contest any further elections.
