Mr. Blinken will be here, just give it a little more time

Apr 25, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,
So, U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken is not coming to Georgetown. I am disappointed. I was looking forward to doing something that there are very few opportunities to do around here. That is, applaud a political figure, while cheering on glowing, graceful Guyana. It is not often that a poor, darkened, Third World society is favoured with a visit from not one Secretary of State, but two of them, one from either pole in the American political realm.
As the U.S. Embassy’s carefully worded statement informed us, Mr. Blinken is not coming, not at this time, as in “imminent.” I thought that that was well said, as it leaves the door open for some pressing of the flesh sometime with the locals who matter. As I say this, I wonder how the Embassy here would handle some of those people partnering with Exxon, and who are not regarded as favourite sons by some American agencies. I suggest that matters relating to law be pondered. The Ambassador slipped up with a couple of them before; maybe there was some learning from those, with the troubling being kept far from, or away, as becomes necessary.
Separately, SN is not the kind of media group that flies off the handle like that, with news that turns out not to be news. At least, not of the “imminent” variety. I speculate which source misled SN, or what prompted the about face over there in Washington, DC. For sooner or later, Mr. Blinken is going to want to have his base here and his boots on the ground. Nothing that should alarm anyone, particularly nervous neighbours; merely a matter of extending a timely helping hand in partnership with a Third World society that came into some riches, but one which is still struggling with what to do with itself, given its newfound fortunes.
Now that Secretary Blinken is neither coming nor going to Georgetown, I guess that we would have to make do with Her Excellency. I assure one and all that she is a much-welcomed presence, which is more a function of national hospitality, ancient courtesy, than any other. But I would be less than myself if I were to say that she has not manifested all the strains of an apparent tired and tiring presence, one who has outlived her stay in Guyana. I plead also that I may be allowed a tad of the mischievous that forever lurks in me, when I submit that she has outlived her usefulness also. I hope by now that my Guyanese brethren are appreciating that I have grown more than a bit jaded with my fellow Americans, due to their antics and nuanced histrionics with that product that we have in abundance out there. I recall as clear as yesterday how they propped up Burnham, and sent countless Guyanese packing.
To America, where else? The cheap labour markets have to be fed. Now I relive history when I see the same Yankees (new faces, old visions) protecting Ali and the PPP.
History does repeat itself, and in the most unimagined ways. I think of all this, and I am marking my calendar. Mr. Blinken will be here, just give it a little more time, and one of these days he will arrive with a grand splash.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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