Moving backwards… in politics

Well…there we have it: the US OFAC-indicted Sanction Man – with 11 criminal indictments on his head – is now the Leader of the Opposition – LOO – in the Guyanese Parliament!! In the hallowed hall of our Georgian Public Building – rather than the utilitarian Convention Center – the 12 PNC/APNU MPs sat on their hands as they “abstained” on the vote! FGM’s Amanza Desir one-woman party cast her lot – in more ways than one! –  with Sanction Man’s 16 seats to have him “unanimously” become LOO!!
It’s a cryin’ shame, innit?!!  The WIN MPs –  all “creatures” of Sanction Man in the sense of the word as used by Desmond Hoyte about his then Gen Secty –  not surprisingly ignored the sage advice of Speaker Nadir:  “I trust that those involved in this process of electing the Leader of the Opposition would be guided by the dignity of the House, the reputation of our country, and the sanctity of the responsibility that has been entrusted upon them by the electorate.” But then, our National Poet Martin Carter had reviewed the human condition in general – and Guyanese in particular – and concluded, “The mouth is muzzled by the hand that feeds it”!!
And Sanction Man’s hand could feed a heck of a lot of mouths – 109,000 self-defined Scrapeheads showed up on Sept 1st to vote for him! After all…just from the gold he smuggled – including from Maduro’s Cartel de los Soles and Sindicatos – for which the Yanks charged him – he stole FORTY BILLION IN TAXES!! Just the taxes!!Imagine the profits!! Money to feed mouths, then, is no object!!
But your Eyewitness is quite disappointed with those who thought Speaker Nadir went too far to compare Sanction Man with Colombia’s drug lord Pablo Escobar. Can it be a coincidence that Sanction Man copied Pablo chapter and verse with his “philanthropy” that bought support with ill-gotten gains? Didn’t Pablo also run for political office? But unlike here, others in the Opposition didn’t make him feel welcome!! They felt he was shaming their country!!
So, what’s ahead?? As your Eyewitness been emphasising, the arm of American justice is very long – and they will get Sanction Man!! Your Eyewitness don’t think it’s gonna come to a Mad Maduro-type snatch!! But that’s just because the extradition process that’s in motion will send Sanction Man Florida bound – sooner than later!! So, Sanction Man, his Daady and his Sissies – yes…it IS a family enterprise! – oughta be selecting which Scrapehead gonna be replacing him as LOO!!
Word on the street is that PNC’S Black Pudding Man’s daughter – who’s been playing hop scotch in politics and ended up in WIN – will be the stand-in.
And was part of the quid pro quo for APNU’S abstention!!

…on sugar
In yesterday’s Budget presentation, the Government declared – once again – their support for the sugar industry. With the carrot of injections and subsidies and the stick of managerial shake-ups if targets aren’t reached!! Diversification was the theme along with empowering the workers by transforming them into owners!!
The Opposition’s gonna be whining, of course about the PPP “throwing money down a black hole”!! But then the PNC only knows how to wreck the productive sector – having had extensive experience under Burnham. Especially with sugar when he levied off all profits and allowed the factories to collapse!!
His protégé Granger followed suit by ignoring his own COI’s recommendation and shuttered four estates!! Sanction Man can only steal not build!!
It takes money to rehabilitate!!

…in Venezuela
Sometimes moving backwards can take you forwards!! Over in Venezuela, Delcy’s rolling back much of Chávez’s legislation that killed their oil industry by throttling foreign oil companies’ profit margins!!