DEAR EDITOR,
“CONFESSIONS of an Economic Hitman” is a book that I would recommend to all right-thinking Guyanese, at home and abroad. It speaks explicitly to “U.S. foreign policy and how economies are undermined by large profit-driven corporations in the United States. John Perkins published this book in 2004.
The book explains that imperialists and capitalists’ drive is so strong and so pervasive, that it has become the primary cause of most wars, pollution, starvation, species extinctions, and genocides. It speaks to decisions that have great significance which are made by powerful men and women, which impact millions of people, are made by people who are driven by self-interest rather than by a desire to do the right thing.
Regime change is a real phenomenon which is on the agenda of the countries who want to protect their self-interests and express no care about the human and economic causalities that follow. Regime change was achieved in Libya in 2011 when Muammar Gadhafi was painted by the Western media as an evil dictator. In 2019 the imperialists were successful in achieving regime change again in Bolivia, our South American neighbour, by influencing a military coup.
The mother of all elections which took place on March 02, 2020 was clearly tainted with all types of fraud. The imperialists were at it again. They are fully aware more than most Guyanese, of the value of Guyana’s oil and gas industry. They are aware that President Granger who is the more unbribable official Guyana or the Caribbean has ever seen does not care for personal wealth. I posit that Mr. Granger is of no use to the the Imperialists; as President, Granger will give all of the oil proceeds to the people and ensure that the children and generations of Guyanese after us will benefit from what rightfully belongs to us.
The imperialists engaged in the same interference that they condemned in their 2016 elections. Several Heads of a foreign mission were seen walking in and out of the GECOM’s chairperson’s office. What did they tell the GECOM chairperson, only God, they and the chairperson know! Another head of a foreign mission barged in on a meeting with the GECOM commissioners and began to instruct them. If the stance of the foreign missions in Guyana isn’t interference, then I am at a loss for words as to what interference means. Former Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin has taken his seat next to Charandass Persaud and is now claiming that the coalition lost the elections. A simple Google search of Mr. Gaskin would indicate that Dominic Gaskin’s rise to popularity is primarily based on his appointment as Minister of Business. Mr. Gaskin, a local jewellery store owner was appointed to this position in 2015 by the incumbent APNU+ AFC coalition. I really searched for his accomplishments at the Ministry of Business but sad to say, I came up empty-handed. Most persons simply know of his existence because he is the President’s son-in-law.
I’ve watched Mr. Gaskin when all of the MPs and ministers voluntarily gave up their dual citizenship after the concocted no-confidence vote in 2018, Mr. Harmon, former Minister at the Ministry of the Presidency and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge among others give up their dual citizenship, but not Mr. Gaskin. He came up with a frivolous excuse as to why he could not surrender his British citizenship. The ministers and MPs who gave up their dual- citizenship clearly indicated that they are in the struggle with the Guyanese people for betterment. Gaskin on the other hand clearly indicated that he will keep his safety net so if things in Guyana don’t go according to his plans, that he could leave at any time. At this point I must confess that it was a struggle to find any achievements listed under his name. He is therefore covered by the overall achievement of the APNU+AFC coalition.
Secondly, when there was debate within the coalition as to who would fill the post of prime ministerial candidate, he was heard on radio and television expressing that he is “battle-ready!” Battle-ready against his, at that time, government which he was a part of. Now he is exhibiting that he really does not stand for anything. Clearly he hasn’t read, “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” which is exactly what is playing out in Guyana. He ensured that in order to protect his little British passport, that he is siding with those who are deliberately attempting to bully the Government of Guyana into regime change. This regime change which the imperialists have succeeded in doing in Bolivia in 2018, In Iraq and in Libya. Mr. Gaskin, these tactics by the imperialists are old.
You can say whatever you want to say now, but we are well aware that you always have your little safety net, so leave us in Guyana who choose to stay, who chose to renounce foreign citizenship to work out what happens in Guyana. We who read, and are knowledgeable about current events see right through the imperialists, but all you see Gaskin is your little burgundy passport.
AFC Member
Region Two
Source: https://issuu.com/guyanachroniclee-paper/docs/guyana_chronicle_epaper_06_22_2020