Down with Woods! Down with Routledge! Down with the cowardly army of cheap local collaborators!

Jan 01, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Mr. Darren Woods leaves the swanky oil towers of his beloved Exxon in Houston and comes to lowdown Guyana. Citizens have an opportunity to show the CEO how much they love, or don’t, this poor country, as stagnated and backward as it is. Guyanese should give him a welcome befitting his regal stature, his presidential bearing, his despotic ruthlessness, for he is all of those. I say send this good ole boy exploiter and carpetbagger back to Houston on the earliest Gulf Stream jet.

Mr. Woods needs no education on what his company has done to country and citizens. He is the vandal, who continues the legacy of predecessors. He knows of our poor and hungry and tired, and how they looked for financial liberty from that oil, just like immigrants saw in that statue in the Hudson. He knows what Exxon has inflicted on this country, and how such afflicts all of its impoverished hopefuls, except those Guyanese who sold out and were gobbled up. The man knows and lives with the results in what Exxon flourishes with here, providing the basis for the beautiful speeches, which he makes to influential heavyweight investors, ordinary shareholders, Wall Street watchers. Expect no sympathy from him, no goodwill, no good faith. He thrives on corporate predations, exists for its financial rapines, knows how to castrate Third World leaders and other powerful internal layers.

It is of compromising the PNC Government first, then neutralizing it, then ousting it. Now his corporate superpower has also compromised, gutted, and humiliated the current PPPC Government and imprisoned its ramshackle leaders and helpers that they can’t even think for themselves, speak for themselves, or do anything by themselves that favours Guyanese interests. Not for the environment, look at the national embarrassment that is the EPA.

Not from the government, study its disease-plagued leaders; it is not Dutch disease, but that peculiar Guyanese one, which is triggered by allergy to money. Not in the private sector, such Quislings they are, not from the professional elite bought and banished, such turncoats they have become. Mr. Woods minions have done their work well. There is even the Exxon Ambassador to the PPPC Government (not Guyana). Go figure that one out. As for unknowing Guyanese, I enlighten them: Clinton and Gore (he of environmental concerns) cast covetous eyes and controlling visions on Russian oil in the early 1990s and lobbied crudely for Chevron and, yes, Exxon. Yeltsin balked, Chernomyrdin hesitated, and Putin put a spanner in the works; Russians are oil nationalists first, don’t do this to Mother Russia. Despite decades of brutal communist control, Russians would not surrender to arrogant Americans hustling to overwhelm them in their time of weakness, and dictate to them. Guyanese should learn.

So, when Mr. Woods touches down, citizens should welcome him and rouse him with as much noise as possible. Let this descendant of cruel, dehumanizing slave owners know that he doesn’t fully own all Guyanese. Not yet. Line up the route to the dismal swamp that is the nation’s capital city, and let him have it all the way. Down with Exxon! Up with Guyana! Down with Woods, down with Routledge, down with the cowardly army of cheap local collaborators!

If those sounds familiar, they are right from the PPP playbook of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Except that it was South Vietnam, South Korea, and America being ceaselessly damned and downed. Times change. Greet him: Go back to Houston. Take the rigs and gigs. Take those politicians that Exxon have dancing shameless countless jigs. Guyanese should force the red-carpet prostraters at CJIA to evacuate him by another route, though my preference is for the conquering oilman to see for himself the explosive rage building in this society.

Editor, Mr. Darren Woods must be made to observe for himself the other side of his oil bargain and oil brigandage from the lips of Guyanese wrathful that a slave master has come to survey the plantation he owns lock, stock, and barrel.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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