Is the USA/UK interference in local politics a repeat of 1964?
April 23, 2014

In Ukraine, the CIA has forged flyers stamped with President Putin’s seal instructing all Jews in eastern Ukraine to report to their pro-Russia local office, ROOM 514, to pay a £30 fee, and to register all their assets, but Russia is insisting that these documents are fake.

CIA-financed snipers, under orders from the coup leaders in Kiev, have shot and killed three pro-Russia separatist guards on duty. When Russia complained about this break in the current ceasefire agreement, the coup leaders in Kiev pleaded innocence, lying that Russia had shot their own sympathisers to blame Kiev.

The moral of this story is that if President Donald Ramotar allows the CIA further traction in Guyana, all the PPP/C Government’s progress in Guyana would be derailed, and Guyana would be returned to the days of a PNC dictatorship and destruction in the land in America’s fight to get back at Venezuela.

The egoistic, vindictive, bitter, vengeful anti-nationalistic, unpatriotic duo, Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo, and all the AFC’s financial backers are enabling this eventuality.

The USA’s envoy in Guyana, Brent Hardt, has challenged the sovereignty of this country by disregarding the government’s objections and implementing an ostensible local “democracy” project here, which is, in reality, providing funding for the joint Opposition in early electioneering, and empowering opposition entities in their anti-Government activities.

This nefarious programme has been sustained even after the US Ambassador has been officially advised of the government’s decision to suspend its continuation, pending further clarification to determine future modus operandi.

At his weekly media briefing after a three-month hiatus while he was on sick leave, political veteran Dr Roger Luncheon — serving as Cabinet Secretary since the inception of the PPP/C Governance Post-1992 — dubbed Hardt’s actions as “provocative”, and unambiguously denounced the latter’s intractable interference in the local political dynamics in very strong language.

The bilateral relations between Washington and Georgetown are being threatened as a consequence of Hardt’s intransigence, because it is hardly likely that the US Ambassador is acting without the blessing and approval of the White House.

The LEAD (Leadership and Democracy) project is funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The Guyana Government had initially fully committed to the LEAD project in its original format; but the interference of Hardt, who is openly displaying partisanship in local politics, has caused the government much alarm at the nature of the project’s implementation. Hence the administration’s request for a cessation until the conclusion of a satisfactory resolution.

However, Hardt has openly disregarded Government’s formal and informal requests for a discontinuation of the project until after engagements that would lead to a satisfactory menu of measures for the continued implementation of the project that would not threaten the sovereignty of this nation.

The government has much disquietude and concerns about the LEAD project taking a different direction to the one originally agreed to by Georgetown and Washington, and the insistence of Hardt in disregarding its concerns over the current focus on empowering the joint Opposition in its anti-developmental thrust.

Hardt would depart Guyana in June, but successive US ambassadors have openly displayed their support of Guyana’s destructive Opposition, with the worst of them being Roland Bullen, and a female ambassador who reputedly shared an intimate relationship with the Editor of one of the local media houses.

The U.S. funded the PNC’s ‘X-13 Plan’ in the 1960s; and again they are believed to be funding the PNC to destablilise another PPP-led government.

And when one reads about their actions in the Ukraine, the recent Linden uprising where three men were killed under questionable and unfathomable circumstances, as well as other such Opposition-driven situations readily come to mind.

The PPP support base, the perennial victims of these joint USA/UK/PNC activities, is fearful that the government would not take pro-active steps to ensure their security from the consequences of this new wave of treacherous actions of this traditional combination that has historically resulted in 28 years of destructive dictatorial governance in Guyana, and its tragic aftermath of a devastated country and a divided nation.

During the days of earlier struggle, Dr. Cheddi Jagan trusted John F. Kennedy. American State documents have revealed that US and UK Heads knew Forbes Burnham was an evil conniver — his own sister said so — and they stated their opinion that Dr. Jagan was a principled leader committed to his people; yet they fuelled Burnham’s ambition and funded the ‘X-13 Plan’ to create havoc in this country.

Their own country is falling apart, but they are all over the world creating mischief. They may very well be behind all the mayhem being created by the Opposition, including Linden, to destabilise another PPP-led Government. There are persons in the local media who are informed about US funding and support of some hate-mongers and insurrectionists who are propagating racism and divisiveness, and encouraging Opposition elements toward taking violent measures to achieve ‘solutions’ in the country.

There was an incident where Opposition parties were encouraging Venezuelan opposition to openly declare Essequibo as part of their territory, in efforts to cause problems for a Jagdeo-led Government. That was during the onset of Chavez’ illness; but Chavez has always been respectful to former President Jagdeo. Actually, Guyanese would never realise the plethora of achievements of Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, who, as President, for the first time in Guyana’s history forged friendly bilateral ties between Guyana and its territorial protagonists, and settled some border disputes, which the joint Opposition, to further own agendas, had no qualms about attempting to derail.

So, the PNC’s history of destroying Guyana and peace in this land for personal gains is a historical fact. The signs have been pointing, for quite a while, to a resurgence of interference by these two superpowers in this country’s political affairs, where their support is overtly skewed in the direction of the Opposition, as in the case of the British High Commissioner joining the PNC in the streets to force the PPP to call off their request for a recount when they realised they were being cheated during the last elections, consequencing the joint Opposition’s parliamentary power with which the combo is creating gridlocks and impasse in Government’s transformational macro and micro developmental programmes.

Vven the UN has been doing its bit of agitating against the PPP/C Government by commissioning and putting its imprimatur behind the infamous Gay McDougal report, funding of anti-governmental NGOs such as the Guyana Transparency International; the WPA/APNU’s women’s arm, Red Thread; and the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA), which always supports criminals against their victims, and has played a real role in advancing criminality in Guyana, creating an adjunctive arm supporting the several incidences of insurrection driven by the joint Opposition.

The Guyana Government needs to recognise and take strong measures against the very real threat of the superpowers collaborating with the joint Opposition to return Guyana to the local political dynamics of the 1960s.