The old physical slavery has been replaced by the new economic slavery

Aug 24, 2023 Letters

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Dear Editor,

Slavery has always occurred since the beginning of mankind. We know of European slavery since it’s why we are here. Slavery, however, preceded the European empires, it happened in the African empires, Indian empires, Arab empires, Chinese empires, the Incas, the Aztecs, the Mayans etc. Slavery continues to this day like in the old times, in India, Africa and the third world where people are still property and women and the poor have no rights.

In rich and poor countries, there is sex slavery; many investigative journalists were shut down trying to expose this since it leads them to the rich and powerful in high societies, and even to top officials in the UN with the human sex trafficking of refugees. Labour is a huge expense to most businesses, so slavery will continue as this is the most profitable way of doing business. The abolitionists fooled the world by saying they ended slavery, but didn’t mention the slave rebellions from African slaves forced the slave masters to end the form of slavery we know since the rebellions were making the plantations unprofitable. Even when the slaves were officially freed, it took decades to attain their rights to vote, get educated, own land, and businesses, and hold public office even as they faced discrimination at every turn.

The slave masters, however, didn’t end slavery, they transformed it into what is called modern-day slavery.  They removed the visible iron chains and shackles, but merely replaced them with invisible chains, which are based on money and economics, stemming from forcing third world countries into resource and debt contracts and getting foreign currency to conduct trades, using local sellout house slaves into deals, which are lopsided benefitting only the slavemasters known as foreign exploiters.

Relevant to Guyana was the Monroe Doctrine where US President James Monroe in 1823 declared that all countries in the western hemisphere were subjected to US policies, where American corporations were to exploit these countries as they wished, and the countries who resisted were labeled as communists, which coups, assassinations, sanctions, and destabilization destroyed those countries right in Guyana’s backyard.  But Guyanese with access only to western media never knew this; the CIA keeping Cheddi Jagan out of power was part of the Monroe Doctrine.

In 1844 there was the Bretton Woods Agreements, where the IMF, World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) would control the finance and trade of third world countries which caused the majority of third world to suffer, due to currency devaluation and debt, rendering them powerless, these policies also killed the vibrant economic sectors of the third world and got them hooked into oil and mineral resources economies, where the exploitation destroyed the lives of the poor. The US dollar became the standard currency for trading, and that’s why countries run into issues from foreign currency shortages, Burnham must be credited for not allowing the Guyana dollar to devalue preventing Guyana’s resources from being exploited.

Today if someone brings US$1M to Guyana, they get over 200M worth of Guyana dollars, yetUS$1M can’t buy you a house in a nice area in the ABC countries, Hoyte should be credited for bartering with Venezuela exchanging rice for oil eliminating foreign currency risk, the PPP continued this under NICIL, subsequently Brassington sued Glenn Lall for Lall alleging corruption at NICIL, yet key documents to support Lall was never presented as they were protected by “confidentiality” clauses.

Today’s modern slavery has been highlighted with the Niger coup exposing France’s enslaving West Africa and other France colonies way after these countries were given their independence, France’s former colonies still have to pay France a “colonial tax”, an invasion of Haiti in 1959 by The Democracy and Freedom Champions of the world The USA was to ensure Haiti comply with France’s claim for loss “investments”, however, France nor the USA gave anything to their victims of exploitation. France still has the right to dictate how these countries are run, and where they do their banking and trade, and these colonies have to beg France for money from their own wealth to run their economies.

The Exxon contract in Guyana has Exxon taking 85.5% of the oil, and the non-withstanding (stability) clause has Guyana compensating Exxon for losses due to any renegotiation.  Guyana’s infrastructure and other resources are diverted from Guyanese for Exxon’s operations, the VP himself said if Exxon has to pay taxes it will be deducted from Guyana’s share, Exxon will not be subjected to the new oil laws, Exxon will not be liable for full coverage in case of oil disasters and Exxon banks Guyana’s oil money and decides when and how much Guyana should receive.  All these terms makes the oil contract just like the deals France’s colonies have with France. Exxon says if Guyanese want a better deal go to court, where Exxon fully well knows their house slaves in Guyana will fight tooth and nail for Exxon against Guyanese, just like the ECOWAS member countries in Africa, some of the most corrupt and sell out house slaves of their people, will be sending troops to Niger to kill their own kind just for France to keep collecting their “dues”.

White people can always get black and brown to kill their own for Whites to benefit, but it can never be the other way around, that’s why over US$3 trillion from oil and resource wealth flow from the third world to the developed world annually. Norton has been lauded for encouraging blacks to own businesses, but how can these businesses succeed if Guyanese don’t have disposable income to support them and how will they compete with Chinese businesses who pay no taxes and import goods duty-free? Wouldn’t these blacks fighting for their rightful share of Guyana’s wealth be a better option?. VP Jagdeo is throwing tantrums like a toddler when being asked questions about the oil sector. Both Jagdeo and Norton dance all around like Basmati rice when it comes to the renegotiation of the oil contract terms.

In today’s world, real emancipation is economic emancipation where people get their rightful share of their wealth and have purchasing economic power, speeches and ceremonies are just cheap imitations of emancipation. Guyanese if you can’t emancipate yourselves from the clutches of the PPP and PNC and the racism and divisiveness festering among you, and if you will not fight for your rightful share of your wealth to attain economic emancipation, then Guyanese continue to live in economic slavery, and hopefully the comedy satire presented by Aubrey Norton and Bharrat Jagdeo at their press conferences can bring you all some peace and comfort.

Yours faithfully,

R. David

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• Bretton Woods Agreements, CIA keeping Cheddi Jagan out of power was part of the Monroe Doctrine, human sex trafficking of refugees, President, slavery

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