President Trump, Guyana, and Nobel Peace Prize

Nov 17, 2025 Letters

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Dear Editor,

The US has been the stabilising factor in the Caribbean region.  Closer to home, the US military presence has stopped Nicholas Maduro in his tracks in his planned design to capture two thirds of Guyana. President Trump has ordered the toppling of Maduro who stole the 2024 elections. A huge flotilla of naval vessels is very close to Venezuela, Guyana, and Trinidad to ensure Maduro does not attack neighbours opposed to him and possibly to oust him. President Trump has prevented Maduro from pursuing his military designs over Guyana and in so doing is maintaining peace in Guyana-Venezuela border and the region. Maduro knows the consequences of attacking Guyana or Trinidad. Trump’s military activist approach and diplomacy in ending conflict after conflict and bringing about genuine peace, continuing in 2025 what Trump started in the latter period of his first term. This and other peace initiatives to end conflicts make him a deserving candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump has been under global spotlight again (following his first term January 2017-2021) ever since he won re-election in the November 2024 Presidential elections. Leader after leader sent congratulation and sought a meeting with him even before he was sworn in on January 20, 2025.

Dr Donald Trump has been a significant and active global peacemaker since returning to the White House in January 2025. He is the only American President who demonstrated a capacity to end war after war and several of them without firing one American bullet. His global diplomacy has been far reaching like no other American President or leader of any country. He has had a positive intervention in many crises including the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He met with President Putin of Russia and President Zelensky of Ukraine to agree to a ceasefire.  There has been a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. And Trump has ended other conflicts and had peace agreements signed that were thought to be impossible. His administration has continued to stand with Guyana on the border controversy claims by Venezuela of territory. His administration has also protected operations of Exxon and other oil companies operating in Guyana. Because of Washington, Nicholas Maduro has avoided military incursion in Guyana. Maduro was warned about the consequences of military intervention in Guyana. His administration has also sided with the government of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr Trump has been the most consequential President to ever occupy the White House. When he spoke or took actions, world leaders pay heed. World leaders line up to meet him at the White House. They respect him out fear of the consequences of not working with him. They yield to his demands. He has exercised power the way no predecessor ever did. He has not been afraid to use power as has been clearly demonstrated in bombing drug boats off Venezuela. He gets the job done that other found difficulty.  He has diplomatic prowess and global influence with hardly a leader saying no to him. And no politician in Guyana has the courage to oppose him.

Trump has been trying to bring order to what has been a chaotic world in the 2020s. His major peace initiative centered on brokering normalisation of relations between Israel and several Arab or Islamic states known as the ‘Abraham Accord’ and negotiating ceasefires and peace frameworks in various global conflicts. And he recently brought Thailand and Cambodia to sign a peace deal.

President Trump claimed he has “ended 8 wars in just 8 months” in a social media post with the title “the president of peace”. The President claimed that he “ended seven ‘unendable’ wars”.  And indeed, prior to his intervention, these have been ongoing, decades or hundred years conflict or long-standing tensions. These include between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda, between Armenia and Azerbaijan and Israel-Gaza Ceasefire. Others include Serbia and Kosovo to normalise relations, Taliban Peace Deal in his first term, and meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore (2018) and Hanoi (2019) to address denuclearisation and ended testing of missiles during Trump’s first Presidency. He intervened in the conflict between Israel and Iran, Pakistan and India prevailing on the former to seek peace, and Egypt and Ethiopia. He brought the Pakistani political and military leaders to Washington twice to push for peace. He has also tried negotiations with Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela on a variety of issues including ending cocaine shipment, illegal immigration, and peaceful transfer of power. He spoke well of Guyana to President Ali.  He has brought the Syrian leader, once a condemned terrorist, to the White House as a gesture of peace in that country. He has threatened Nigeria with military action unless that country ends the persecution and killings of Christians. And he has been pursuing balanced trade deals.

Millions of lives have been saved as a result of President Trump’s intervention to achieve peace that only he could have delivered. As someone commented President Trump is proving that “nations across the globe can move beyond longstanding conflicts of the past toward a shared future of peace, prosperity, and success”.

President Trump’s ability to end wars and sign friendship treaties as well as ceasefire agreements is an indicator of his potential eligibility for the Peace Prize.

Yours truly,
Dr Vishnu Bisram (PhD)

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• Guyana, Israel-Gaza Ceasefire, potential eligibility, President Zelensky, Trinidad, Venezuela

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