Why the silence

Jan 08, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – I was mystified by the PPP Govt’s silence on the US-Maduro developments. Now, I am beginning to get the first glimpses of understanding as to why there is the thundering silence out of loud PPP Govt corners.

There is the man Maduro, a real caudillo he is turning out to be, and he holds more keys that unlocks secret doors than I thought possible. From the US indictment against him, the thunderclap came: indictment includes unnamed Caribbean and Central American leaders who were complicit in the Venezuelan’s vast drug trafficking empire, and who pocketed his payoffs. Guyanese know that there are those among their finest chiefs who cannot resist taking a dollar, any kind of dollar from any type of source.

Don’t expect any names to be published, for some of the unnamed leaders who took payoffs are useful to US calculations. What is going on in Guyana is more than silence. It is shivering in Freedom House, and those other big houses with some of the biggest people in his criminal-infested land. Recall that the US government quietly and suspiciously removed PPP Govt official Ms. Mae Toussiant Thomas, when the father and son Mohameds combo was charged. There had to be some bargain with the devil, and a large pound of flesh collected from the PPP Govt. That is called a marker, or IOU. One was whatever the US does in Venezuela, the PPP squires had to bite their tongues and get a chastity belt for their tonsils. Not one peep out of the PPP relative to predawn helicopters, masked men, machineguns blazing, Maduro and his better half sent express delivery to Brooklyn, USA. Even the usually clever scripts that are read in public were lacking on this occasion, with some tripe that even a pig would turnup its nose at in disdain. Yuh nat sellin’ mee dat stinker about norms and so forth, are ya? Oftentimes, it is better to do away with the scripts, and just keep mouth as sealed as a casket.

Just as in drug smuggling, I have always questioned myself as to who took payoff money from the drug money masters. This man Maduro may be in chains, but he has in his head (and in books) what could make master politicians look like master criminals. No wonder there’s appalling silence here on what happened in Venezuela last Saturday. Maduro may be in the lockups, but he can still expose some top politicians, and put a hole in their balloons. I know some smart-alecky in the PPP Govt is likely to say that, technically speaking, Guyana is not a part of the Caribbean, which may be quarter correct. Therefore, there is no finger of inclusion wrapping around the necks of some of Guyana’s golden political children. I beg to differ, for there is the power of logic.

If big buckets of cash could have been collected over the years from drug people, gold people, dirty people, people with history, then why not from the Big Kingfish himself, Nicolas Maduro Moros? He was in so much of a hole for such a long time (blame US sanctions) that he was ready to do business with everybody. And there are some leading political darlings here who would do business with anybody for a million or two, and think nothing of turning their backs on them in a crunch. Maybe even give them up to keep on the good side of the Yanks. I shouldn’t have to name any names, only draw the maps with the appropriate symbols.

Now there are two things that Guyanese politicians, ruling and others, have going for them. Both are US based. First, the US is not likely to disclose any names. Political assets in the Caribbean can’t be jeopardized. Recall how Panama’s Manuel Noreiga was coddled and virtually granted immunity while Black communities in the US, especially California, were devastated. That is how US protections rackets work, complete with a star presence. If the US wouldn’t give up a destructive criminal like Noreiga, which names from Guyana is the same US going to give up publicly? And, if former PPP Govt Permanent Secretary (a protected asset) could be made to fall off from US sanctions status, then all things are negotiable.

So, rest easy boys in the new government and old government, all is well. Once the oil and Exxon are well taken care of, then there is nothing to fear.

(The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of this newspaper.)

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W. R. Strebor January 12, 2026 at 1:24 pm

Imagine the Illegal fuel trades. Fuel made available to Guyana few years back for $1.14 Lt. Could not complete with the dirty pirated fuel coming from Venezuela at .48 Liter. The Lady general was selling pirated fuel.

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