PPP/C Government overextension

Jan 14, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – At first glance, it would appear that the PPPC Government, with President Irfaan Ali in charge, has taken all the steps required to accommodate the US on Venezuela. The first glance soon leads to the conclusion that it is more than an accommodation of US actions by Guyana.

The second, closer glance stirs up the heated and the controversial: Guyana has totally acquiesced to the pull and push of the US. US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio went on a charm offensive targeting the Guyana’s leader, who loves to be stroked and told what he wants to hear. He hears how Guyana is a good partner, and he is the kind of leader that the US cherishes. This is music to the PPPC Government that has twisted itself sideways and some near-impossible angles to be on the right side of the US in its decisive, but now up-and-down, overlordship into Venezuelan affairs. But Guyana has more than accommodated and acquiesced to the wishes of the US. Unfortunately, Guyana now stands as a full-fledged accomplice of the US in what has to be described as its dirty, ill-advised war against Venezuelan national interests.

Accomplice is a heavy word, fits the definition of a slur almost. But the argument can be made, and we at this paper believe it is a sound one, that Guyana has done all that’s in its power to put the smoothest spin to US actions that led to the jarring removal of President Maduro. Now there’s the introduction of an era of confusion, if not chaos in Venezuela. The country was already reeling from years long sanctions applied by the US, which have extracted an intolerable toll. The lawless abduction of Maduro can have few backers, but there was the PPPC Government already in a corner, and backing itself deeper into it. What some senators in President Trump’s own Republican Party couldn’t stomach, couldn’t condone (accommodate), the PPPC Government of President Ali was proud to go in the opposite direction, and jump on the Donald Trump Venezuela bandwagon. It will take a long time for Guyana to overcome this false step, the accompanying shame.

President Ali is the kind of leader, who usually walks armed with large packets of words, and can unleash a barrage of them, as suits his energies and interests at the time. Strangely, a period of almost temple-like serenity has overtaken him, leaving him operating with the silence of lambs, after crossing himself up with the blustery offering to US interests that Guyana supports ‘the return of democratic norms’ in Venezuela. What Guyana’s president views as democratic norms, many other take the position that a violation of international law has occurred in full view. It is one matter to rain down bombs and death from the skies on alleged drug boats. It is quite another to trap and abduct a sitting president from his seat of office. Twist it or turn it, this is what the PPPC Government committed Guyana before the whole world to supporting.

No question that this country has serious concerns about Maduro, from his ambitions to his hostile language to some of his actions. But the riddance of Maduro is not the end of Guyana’s anxieties. He was never a one-man show, a leader going out on a shaky branch with no backing from his inner circle and wider arc of contemporaries. Guyana’s lands and riches are firmly fixed in the minds of Venezuelan powers, be they calculating politicians, or warlike military men, and there is no changing that, Maduro present, or Maduro in a New York house of detention.

How naïve could the PPPC Government leadership be? How much of this country’s credibility has been squandered now that Guyana is a global brand? Guyana, under its current political leadership cannot talk about Gaza and the Palestinian people, and be believed. President Ali is sure to speak at the UN General Assembly, but before an audience that sees a man representing a country that is in the pocket of the US. A country subject to its command, and justifying and partnering with its every manipulation. Currently, Guyana looks pitiful, with President Ali having a lot of self-examination to do.

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Editorial, Government, Marco Rubio, overextension, PPP/C

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