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Evil is evil whether it is foreign or domestic
DEAR EDITOR,
In response to a recent piece by one of your leading columnists (in reaction to Nigel Hinds’ important letter), it was said that the Exxons of the world should not be criticised because government entities at the national level and local businesses in the said society exploit and mistreat the poor worse than any foreign or multi-national corporation (I am paraphrasing so maybe I didn’t get the columnist’s argument quite right, but I think that I am in the ball-park).
Mr. Editor when it comes to people taking advantage of the poor or the host of other evils that are directed at the poor and the working class, I think that all guilty parties should be exposed and in no particular order. You can’t tell me that if Exxon is taking advantage of Guyana that I shouldn’t talk about it because I didn’t say anything when ministers of the government were driving their $45 million SUV’s or when senior government functionaries were enjoying some benefit or privilege that the masses of working class people in Guyana did not enjoy. Anyone who says that must be an apologist or a closet agent of multi-national entities. I am getting tired of this nonsense of persons taking the position that poor people’s problems come exclusively from a local source.
I am not saying that the corruption, greed and other injustices, whether public or private, that are perpetrated against the poor and the working class at the local level, should not be addressed and discussed at the local level. It should be addressed and exposed in the media. But what I am also saying is that foreign incursions that degrade and tarnish our economic and political life should also be exposed and discussed in the media. Evil is evil whether it is foreign or domestic and I can elaborate in another piece, on why I think that multi-national corporations are much more invidious than anything that can be concocted at the local level. In any event, some people (like Nigel Hinds) tend to focus more on the foreign aspect of our economic predicament because that is the area of their expertise and interest. They are entitled to that.
Sincerely,
Rudy Vyfhuis
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