…with US
In front of Pres Ali, who was attending an early commemoration of the US July 4 Independence bash at her home, Ambassador Nicole Thieriot took time to place Venezuela in her sights. She reminded our president of the tremendous close cooperation between her country and ours – “the closest it has ever been”!! – especially in the defence sphere! Now this is high praise indeed – considered against the background of Burnham once delivering our country as a client state to the US in exchange for being handed power!
The Ambassador took pains to enumerate and elaborate on several of the areas in which our forces had collaborated during the past year. On top of the list was that show of force coinciding with the March visit of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when our GDFS SHAHOUD and the USS NORMANDY sailed side by side. In the wake of the madman conducting an election for a governor and legislators for Essequibo – which he claimed to have annexed – “TAKE THAT, MAD MADURO!! was the not-so-subtle message!! To a madman, whatever goes on in his head is real!!
The Ambassador also raised the perennial and vexed issue of Venezuelan gold evading their sanctions by being smuggled into Guyana and sold here! Mad Maduro had worked out an arrangement with the Sindicatos gang back in 2016 – when he escalated his claims to Essequibo – for them to control Venezuela’s Orinoco’s Mining Arc (Arco Minero del Orinoco — AMO), a 112,000-square-kilometre strip of rainforest that includes an extensive stretch along the border with Essequibo. These are the same gang members who’ve taken on the GDF on the Cuyuni recently. The gold smuggling helps keep both the gangs and Mad Maduro’s regime afloat. Pres Ali promised to put more resources into stemming this self-inflicted wound on our body politic.
And just the day before, US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau – who’s also of Spanish descent – dressed down the leaders of the OAS for abdicating their responsibilities to the crisis in Haiti – and more so to what Mad Maduro was doing next door!! Addressing the OAS General Assembly – held in Antigua and Barbuda – Landau pointed out:
“As recently as last month, the Venezuelan regime ran another sham legislative and regional election that lacked transparency and fairness and included a controversial vote purporting to elect Venezuelan representatives to govern Guyana’s Essequibo state. If this organisation is unwilling or unable to respond to or remedy the situation where a regime openly thumbs its nose at international norms and threatens the territorial integrity of its neighbour, then we must ask, What’s the point of the organisation?”
Looks like now that Iran got a wake-up call, their ally Mad Maduro might be next!!
…and animals?
This election season is pushing some wannabe leaders over the brink!! Ambition should be made of sterner stuff!! Take one of the new contestants, who thought that he could buy his way to the presidency just like he bought his way to owning a Lamborghini and a stable of expensive cars. By hook or crook – mostly by the latter!!
But he forgot that for elections to office, rules were set up ages ago – and they just can’t be bent by throwing money at them. For instance, going back to the days when folks couldn’t read or write, candidates could select a symbol to be placed next to their party’s name – to give a hint to their supporters. The custom became a law.
So, this moneybags candidate picks the jaguar as his symbol and boasts about it on his campaign stops. But told by GECOM that animal was off limits – he now claims it’s a leopard!!
He doesn’t know they’re different?? Check their florets!!
…in Mid-East
Ever wondered why the Arab Governments in the Mid East haven’t made common cause with Iran against Israel – which seems determined to wipe out the Arab Palestinians?? Blood isn’t thicker than their hatred of Shia identity!!
