GUYANA Diaspora organization warns of escalating situation along Guyana-Venezuela border

BROOKLYN, New York, October 16, 2023 - The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), says Guyanese should be gravely concerned that the Venezuelan military is amassing at the Guyana border. Venezuela has deployed thousands of soldiers, armored personnel carriers (war tanks) and other equipment to the Guyana-Venezuela border and are engaged in exercises and war drills.

In a statement late this afternoon, the CGID says it has been advised that dozens of logistics and intelligence officers from the Venezuelan Army are currently in Guyana pretending to be ordinary citizens, but are obviously sending back intelligence reports to their Venezuelan government.

In addition, reports reaching CGID headed by Rickford Burke, are that the Venezuelans  are now assembling pontoons that can enable army vehicles, tanks and personnel to cross the border.

The Brooklyn based Guyana Diaspora organization in its statement said the PPP government has allowed over one hundred thousand Venezuelan migrants to infiltrate Guyana, with the specific intent to assimilate them into Guyanese society. Many suspect the PPP government plan to allow them to unlawfully vote in the next general elections.

"Guyanese should be very concerned that the PPP government doesn't know who these thousands of Venezuelans are. Some have taken over entire facets of the society. To facilitate them, the government announced that it intends to spend over $400 million.

"The PPP regime is so excited to illegally add these potential enemies of the Guyanese people to their voting block, that they're now offering government services in Spanish. Even Police vehicles are marked in Spanish. The PPP's obsession with power has located them in the intersecting circumstance of conspiracy to commit election fraud and treason! Unheard of !

"Regions with major African Guyanese populations which are governed by the APNU-AFC do not even have a combined budget allocation from central government of $200 million, much less $400 million, which the racist PPP regime is spending on the Venezuelans, some of whom are clandestine Venezuelan military agents, the CGID Statement said.

"The situation becomes even more perilous for Guyanese when one contemplates that Bharrat Jagdeo once attempted to give away part of Essequibo to Venezuela for them to create a pathway to the Atlantic Ocean.

Furthermore, the PPP government under illegal President Janet Jagan, signed an agreement with the Venezuelan government for mutual agreement before any major development can be undertaken in Essequibo.

"The PPP government has been weak and untrustworthy on Venezuela. Some argue that their policies have been reckless and feckless, and encumbered by pure incompetence.

This abysmal assessment is justified by the appalling three-year absence of an Ambassador to Venezuela," CGID says.

The Diaspora organization , which has been a virtual thorn in the side of the PPP Government,  said "they've now managed to appoint an Ambassador in Dr. Richard Van West Charles, a medical doctor.

The new Ambassador, a decent gentleman who is well respected, has zero foreign policy experience; zero frontier relations or policy experience; zero Guyana Venezuela border controversy knowledge or experience and zero knowledge or experience in peace and conflict resolution diplomacy.

His only asset in this assignment is his Spanish speaking capability; though one can argue that he has been an international civil servant working for PAHO-WHO."

The CGID laments that "the PPP regime’s policy on Venezuela, has been a colossal embarrassment and disaster, with the exception of its management of the case at the International Court of Justice, which it co-manages with the opposition APNU-AFC which initiated the case while in government.

"Most important, this PPP regime has blatantly discriminated against the African Guyanese population, including bulldozing their homes and used the utterly corrupt leadership of the Guyana Police Force to criminalize African Guyanese political leaders and activists. Worst, they have disrespected and demonstrated utter contempt for high ranking African Guyanese officers of the Guyana Defence Force."

According to the CGID, "they brought out Brigadier Omar Khan from retirement to supersede two African Guyanese officers. As is true with everything else with this apartheid regime, whatever they do is informed or tinged by their misbegotten, preposterous, contemptible governance philosophy of ethnic supremacy.

"It is hard pressed to conclude that the regime is capable of managing this crisis or can even be trusted to do so. Conclusively, any government of Guyana that contemplates giving away part of Essequibo to Venezuela is unpatriotic and cannot be trusted to managed Guyana's affairs. It disqualified them to govern Guyana."