Outing… Mad Maduro’s 5th Columnists

With every passing day, the showdown between the US and Mad Maduro in Venezuela looms larger. Whether we agree or not on President Trump’s motives, as far as your Eyewitness is concerned, that’s irrelevant!! The bottom line for us is Mad Maduro’s actions proving he’s an implacable enemy of our very existence!! And, like T&T, we’ve got more than ample evidence that drugs are being shipped from Venezuela into our Essequibo – staining us as a drug transhipment route! Not to mention creating a slippery slope for our law enforcement personnel – who can’t resist the humongous bribes.
What your Eyewitness wants to know is exactly what role our Opposition wants to play to get rid of – or challenge – Mad Maduro’s bullyism. With or without the Yanks. Since they like to protest – as they’ve shown in their picketing of GECOM – they can put some pressure on folks who can actually put pressure on the SOB. Like China – which is backing him to the hilt by buying more than 80 per cent of Venezuelan oil and helping them to reach 1 million bbd again!! Even as their CNOOC exploits our Stabroek Oil!!
Can’t these worthies from the Opposition, say, chain themselves to the fence of the Chinese Embassy and go on a hunger strike till that country reads the riot act to Mad Maduro?? Can you imagine that?? It’ll invoke the memory of Mahatma Gandhi taking on the British Empire when they held India under their boots. The Opposition can point to the moral depravation of China – now aspiring to pip America in the superpower sweepstakes – propping up Venezuela under Mad Maduro to put us under THEIR boots!! Surely the Chinese don’t want to start off their global ascendancy by throwing away the legitimacy we’ve given them all the way back to 1972, when Forbes backed them at the UN over Taiwan?
So you may ask, why would China give credence to such a small state like us?? Well, firstly, we ain’t such a small state no longer. Just look at the attention Pressie got at the UNGA!! Pictures of our brave Opposition chained to the Chinese fence crying for justice as they pine away gonna be on TV screens – not to mention social media platforms like X – all over the globe. And secondly, there’s the demonstrator effect on most of the UN that are small states – which China depends on to create a multipolar world!!
For us, it would be a litmus test on whether our new Opposition leader and his WIN party have any connections to Mad Maduro – as has been asserted by some!!
He should be in the forefront if he wants to get the OFAC monkey off his back!!

…new colonisation?
Your Eyewitness has been getting quite a few reports of foreigners flooding our landscape and treating our locals like dirt. Remember that substandard Chinese (not-so-great) supermarket wall collapsing and killing that worker? It’s like Columbus landing again, “DISCOVERING” us, giving us some baubles – while taking our gold and snickering that we’re “naïve natives”! Actually it was because they had guns – while we had bows and arrows!
Today they’ve got something more powerful than guns – “Foreign Direct Investment” (FDI)!! Without FDI, we can have all the resources in the world, but it ain’t worth squat unless they’re developed – needing funds. But hey!! We now have oil revenues flowing into our coffers to fund whatever project we NEED!! We don’t need no FDI so desperately that we gotta beg!! And especially, we don’t need no FDI to build supermarkets. At least we can build those on our own!!
In the meantime, we absolutely shouldn’t let them furriners diss us. They need our resources, don’t they??

…Norton??
We don’t have all the (perfidious?) details – yet!But we were informed that Norton emerged from the PNC CEC meeting retaining the “Leader” portfolio!! So was he challenged to fall on his (rusty) sword??
Or was the fix in??