Tim Hector
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Leonard Tim Hector (born 24 November 1942, Antigua – died 12 November 2002, Antigua) was a leftist Antiguan political leader and cricket administrator known for his opposition to the rule of the Bird family.
Hector was a founder of the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement in 1968. The party supported socialism, the Cuban Revolution, and a pan-Caribbean vision.
He published the newspaper The Outlet and the column Fan the Flame.
The writer Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua and Barbuda's best-known expatriate, was a strong supporter of Hector and the ACLM.
He was born Leonard Churchill Hector but his grandfather called him "Tim" as a term of endearment stemming from the Russian General Semyon Timoshenko. (During World War II in the Caribbean, naming children Churchill, Winston, and Roosevelt was common.) In later years he was better known as Tim and more formally known as Leonard Tim Hector.
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