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Mafia in Guyana
Kaieteur News – There are few Guyanese who harbor doubts that the United States has this country under almost total lockdown and control. But the unthinkable came into the spotlight recently, which made magnificent America look somewhat midget-like. A man from the Mafia, wanted by Interpol, was sharing space with the US Embassy, so close as to be inside the well-fortified complex itself. It may be posited by some that the American government representatives are so focused on Guyana’s political affairs and commercial prospects that they failed to look after their own welfare first.
A man on the radar of Interpol comes all the way from Italy and takes up residence and the Americans don’t know. If they don’t know what is going on in their own front yard, then how can they keep the closest tabs on Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela. The PPPC Government is always ready to sniff out and charge with oppressive power at Guyanese identified as hostile to the party’s interests (not the State’s),including law-abiding ones. But there were all the government’s layers upon layers of covert and public operators caught asleep at the wheel. In view of the mafiosi’s alleged links to local money people and the narcotics trade, it could be that special dispensations (‘hands off’ status) were arranged. It would not be the first time nor the last that some of the more influential forces in the PPPC Government have consorted with criminal elements. The result has always been another blot on this country’s reputation. It is another mark on a government that goes to extreme lengths to target those Guyanese perceived as threatening to its own credibility. But one that is reduced to a state of ignorance and impotence on the real dangers in the midst.
The citizens of this country have enough troubles of their own, the ones that are homegrown. There are phantom networks once closely associated with the PPPC Government now gone underground, planning their moves, biding their time. There was a recent United Nations Human Rights Committee that met, and where one of the hard questions had to do with why the PPPC Government has failed to address allegations of corruption against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo. A watching and listening world was reminded once again of what Guyanese live with, have their share of different beliefs about. Senior Government Minister, Ms. Gail Teixeira, MP, made a brave effort to represent her boss and guarantor to the best of her ability. We at this paper think that it lacked any element of persuasive power. When the people at the UN heard about the filing of a police report and who should have done so, they must have kept a straight face out of regard for the occasion, and not anything that Minister Teixeira said. Because a police report was not filed, the State seems to have wanted the ugly matter that enmeshed a former head of state (and now the man in charge of the crucial oil portfolio) to die away in the quickest possible time.
At the time of the allegations by a Chinese businessman, there was President Irfaan Ali, a leader who owes where he is to the man at the center of international attention, Jagdeo, being his usual self. The president was full of words, but hollow in genuine follow-up action. Like all those who owe Jagdeo, and the man himself, they want this corruption allegation to go its way, and for the matter to be over. The UN Human Rights Committee was not in a cooperative or submissive mood. Crimes, allegations of crime, and rumours of crime have all been an inerasable aspect of Guyana’s political framework. Every government and almost every leader has had some stain attached to him, some stench that sticks, some key institutions of the State looked upon critically, even dismissively. It is the perfect environment for foreign criminals to take up residence here: possibly weakened leadership, compromised national agencies, and comrades trying hard to provide convincing cover. Guyana struggles to deal with its criminal hordes, from the street level ones to the white-collar ones in high national offices. The last thing that Guyanese need in the current environment is the mafia being here.
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