Cheddi was indeed a creep who was better off in the ground than above mucking up the country. However I refer to the period post Cheddie when Jagdeo took over and phantomized your evil agents who were bent on destroying the nation. Hoyte had no choice in the matter, we should not be happy that he suspended Burnham's wicked laws.
So here is the deal Burnham destroyed Guyana. Had Cheddi been president he would have done the same. So it appears to me that neither the PNC nor the PPP are any good for Guyana.
Of course some might argue that the PPP has changed and is no longer Marxist Leninist. It is quite clear that Hoyte changed the direction of the PNC and so it is not what it was under Burnham either.
As to Hoyte not having a choice. He did. He could have done what Burnham definitely would have done and that was to spit in the face of the IMF and the World Bank and plung Guyana into a condition worse than Mali or Niger. To hisw credite Hoyte put Guyana before his personal ambitions, even though he rfisked losing office, which did in fact happen. And when Hammie tried to stage a coup who told him to behave himself.
Jagdeo did NOTHING to the PNC. If the PNC was to blame for the violence then senior officials would have been charged and arrested. No such thing was done. So we are left with the image of the PPP aiding a drug dealer who was attempting to rid himself of the competition. It is more than a suspicion that violent elements like Fineman worked in cahoots with some of these drug lords, when it suited their purposes.