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A losing game
Dear Editor
In my decades of political activism, I have never contacted any international organisations or foreign governments to raise political issues in my country. I have no problem with anyone who has done that. In fact, I have no doubt such has its benefits.
I hold deeply to the belief that it is the ordinary and suffering masses of a country that are in the majority that have the ultimate power to change their government. I believe in people’s power to confront tyranny and bring down dictatorships. The foreign policy of first world governments, in my estimation, does nothing to better the lives of the suffering masses of poor countries with the wealth of oil and other resources. Geopolitics couldn’t care less about the little boys and girls that have to face the daily horrors of rape and abuse. What these foreign powers do is to manipulate our political leaders to influence their countries own economic benefits. When it comes to black countries with wealth, the majority live in squalor beleaguered by violence and poverty.
Guyana is a multi-cultural society where Africans are fighting to be counted as citizens in their own land. That is of the least interest to foreign powers whose major role is to get their lion share from our oil wealth. Guyana has a corrupt government that the US Foreign Secretary wants to see remain. Exxon wants the weakest and most unpopular African Guyanese opposition leader to face the electorate knowing full well that is the only way the PPP at its weakest will return to rule after this year’s general elections. The UK’s Foreign Secretary, a Blackman of Guyanese parentage, appears to be enamoured with Jagdeo and the PPP.
Meanwhile, our politicians in Guyana are in talks about coalescing and finding the right presidential candidate. The talks seem stuck at Norton taking us into the elections. They must tell the masses the truth about who is influencing the direction of an electoral loss for the opposition. They must tell the Guyanese people why our opposition politicians are most silent in the face of an apparent confabulation that will emerge into certain defeat.
I am confused as to the talks and where they are at presently. AFC leader, Nigel Hughes says one thing to the press and the talks are heading in the opposite direction. As it is now, I see us playing a losing game. Who played a part in ensuring that Dr Terrence Campbell, the only hope we have, at the helm of a coalition, to bring certain defeat to the PPP government, is not even up for debate or consideration? It is time the masses open their eyes and rise up and demand our politicians do what’s best to save Guyana.
Sincerely
Norman Browne
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