Is there really a problem between the governments of Venezuela and Guyana?

Apr 08, 2024 Letters

Dear Editor,

When the government of Guyana is so willing to work with agents of Venezuela that could be in the business of laundering stolen loot, can one rally conclude there is a major problem between the corrupt governments of the two countries? Is Guyana serving as a backwater post to wash illegal loot of Venezuelan rulership. Washington is no fool. It knows what is happening and a price will be paid once new parties are formed under decent leadership. I urge Azrrudin Mohammed and Glenn Lall to launch their parties to rid the country of the blight of the corrupt.

It can’t be that Guyana officials don’t know that Dominican and Puerto Rican companies have been laundering stolen wealth of the Venezuelan people. They have business in Venezuela. What are they doing there and at the same time also have business in Guyana? Aren’t they mere fronts of Venezuelan loot with specialization for laundering money? Is it true that they have been contracted for works in Guyana in billions of American dollars through which Venezuelan money will be washed as clean money and expected to be deposited in a bank in Puerto Rico, DR, and in America? Will the Americans be fooled? At the right time, won’t Americans make their move to seize assets? It was done repeatedly regarding corrupt officials from other countries. Apparently, Guyanese officials don’t know that Puerto Rico is American territory. Laundered money is not safe there from US law. At the right time, laundered assets will be seized. A DR company is on an American watch list.

Isn’t Venezuela oil being smuggled into Guyana and some becoming filthy rich from it? Is the border controversy a distraction to hide corrupt proceeds on both sides of the border? The Maduro government needs a distraction and to project patriotism in the run up for election to garner votes. The government of Guyana needs a distraction from the pervasive corruption eating away at the fabric of our country. High officials are becoming unimaginably rich while the poorer section is becoming further impoverished. The middle class, including underpaid teachers, can barely make ends meet. The injection of government financing of projects and the loot from front companies of government officials only serve to further inflationary pressures. Invested stolen loot by officials fuel inflation. The poor has to fetch the inflation burden while government officials and the wealthy make out like real bandits. The poor can’t afford three meals a day. Food products have more than doubled since August 2020. The agriculture sector has been decimated because of unbridled corruption by a handful of crooks. Productivity has declined for every food item; food prices have gone through the roof. The poor have been reduced to a state of being that existed during the peak of the dictatorship in the mid-1980s.

Guyanese should stand up against the ongoing move to make their country a backwater post to launder bad money from foreign companies and for government officials to loot the treasury of oil proceeds. Azrrudin and Glenn Lall must commit to review corrupt contracts.

Yours truly,
Nigel Pilgrim

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