Americans outsmart themselves again

Nov 18, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Closing in on a year and a half later, the Americans have to be surveying their local elections handiwork, and lament how they always lose with Guyana. They look at the PPP – its proxy President and unimaginable Vice President – and ask themselves how they do so miserably with local leaders.
Decades ago, they tied bundle with L.F.S Burnham, and the 28-year results need no recounting, both for the Yankees and Guyanese. Similarly, 28 years ago, they resurrected C.B Jagan, and got a successor they themselves (not I) called a monstrosity. He is back today, compliments of America’s sturdy devotion to democracy, and free and fair, only for a more hideous leadership monstrosity being their ghastly nightmare. A small snapshot of what falls squarely into the classification of governance as its grimmest should clear the air.
During the elections’ frenzies, a man named Pompeo came and the PPP rolled out the red carpet. Lots of conversations occurred, and expectations spiraled, about relations with American companies (infrastructure construction and so forth). Yet today, it is the Chinese invasion, and everywhere. There is even spirited talk of ‘One China’ while America’s position on Taiwan is clear. Then, there were some rumblings about Russian vaccines from the UAE, only for them to be absent from the list approved for entry into the U.S. Considering these two situations alone, confirmation comes that PPP leadership is over its head, and has lost where the bigger picture is concerned, inclusive of the potential obstacles down the road. Naturally, when the big picture involves big money, PPP leadership is flawless in operating in darkness and devilishness; not a step missed, when their own crooked interests are intertwined.
The Americans came and showed Guyana how to talk right and walk upright, and all PPP leaders can do is crawl around like snakes in swamps. Its ambassador must be looking on, and saying to her team here and superiors in Foggy Bottom, how the hell do we keep missing the boat with leaders like these? For there is a President and a Vice President who were gifted free and fair, and how quickly they resort to the undemocratic, as in fear and foul. Elections are about politics, admittedly dirty; but governance is about statesmanship, and that requires integrity. ABC (&E) live with their wounds. Among them, is the stain of that school contract, the stench of which is labelled genuine electoral reform.
There is one leader who gets into verbal entanglements and another who is slipperier than a greased eel. Yes, he is that oily and snaky. The consensus in Duke Street and Washington has to be that with laws and rules and regulations good for papering over only, and propaganda a national art form, that Guyana is not serious; not ready for nationhood, brotherhood, even manhood. The conclusion must be that Guyana’s ruling leaders are only ready for the social and financial ghetto that is of a criminal political hood. Meaning, the same old dirty ways.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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