The government has condemned a growing number of cowardly entities – claiming to be of Guyanese provenance – spreading Mad Maduro’s propaganda in the run up to his legislative and Gubernational elections that provocatively purports to include our Essequibo!! The government has dubbed this “unpatriotic” – and rightly so!! For sure, there are those some hiding behind fake social media monikers who might be Venezuelan agents conducting what’s routine in modern warfare – cyberwar!!
Remember the Ruskies influencing the last two US elections?? And this in a country that’s got the most sophisticated means of detecting these cyber-attacks!! Now this doesn’t mean we should roll over and play dead in the face of these ploys that are meant to undermine our morale. No Siree Bob!! As the government’s doing – these efforts must be identified and not only “condemned” but countered by solid information about the madness of Maduro conducting elections in a region where he doesn’t even have a SINGLE polling station!! If there was any need to prove the man was stark raving bonkers, this is it!!
But rather insidiously, there are some Guyanese from the Opposition benches who’re objectively supporting Mad Maduro in their desperate quest to be relevant in the coming elections. Your Eyewitness says “objectively” because they’re couching their support for Mad Maduro in language that suggests they’re merely “criticizing the government’s policies”!! Take one trade union leader who’s unfortunately developed that “foaming at the mouth” affliction in his dotage – when it comes to the PPP government. The fella has nary a word about the structural challenges of workers in this neoliberal world – nah…that would mean he’d have to concede the government’s been bucking those forces in their commitment to workers and the poor!! Does he give credit, for instance, for all the welfare programs the government has maintained -even as the big powers like the US have been whittling them away?? Naaah!!
Yet this leader got top billing in one of the anti-PPP newspaper to announce that the government cannot count on the Guyanese populace in general – and the African-dominated army in particular! – because the government should’ve already resolved ALL the challenges of poverty etc…in the four years they’ve been returned to office with oil revenues flowing into the Treasury!! Rome wasn’t built in a day – but our 48% poverty left by the APNU/AFC government of 2015 to 2020 – must be eliminated by the wave of a wand!!
Your Eyewitness would remind this Union leader about the patriotism of Cheddi Jagan – who’d been rigged out of office by the PNC. But when the Venezuelans threatened our national sovereignty – he stood by the side of the master rigger Burnham to jointly announce “Not a blade of grass”!!
That was a patriotism!!
…desperation
So what’s going down on the elections front – as the clock inexorably keeps ticking away towards the Opposition’s rendezvous with their destiny later this year. All your Eyewitness can say is their assessment of that destiny gotta be exceedingly bleak! It ranges from gloom to almost doom, if the truth be told!! Take their efforts to form a coalition to take on the PPP – which has the state resources at its disposal and is deploying it quite shrewdly in the Opposition’s erstwhile strongholds, thank you!! There’s no question that a coalition – before elections – is the only vehicle that can possibly defeat the PPP. You can’t get away from the numbers – even if the census hasn’t been released, the breakdown of the ethnic blocks that determine voting patterns is an open secret!!
So, what does the Opposition do?? Reject Aubrey Norton – who’s only the leader of the LARGEST opposition party, the PNC!! Why? Because he dresses and speaks like the majority of Opposition supporters!!
Death wish??
…ineptitude
A Mexican training sailing ship just crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge – snapping three masts and killing two sailors. Seems it headed into the wrong direction. Was it confused by Google’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America??
