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Bert Wilkinson | 9/17/2020, midnight
Guyanas government has confirmed the impending visit of American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the Caribbean Community nation this week fueling widespread speculation that the visit is linked to protracted efforts by Washington to use the country as some kind of an operating base to deal with neighboring Venezuela.
Foreign Minister spokeswoman Audrey Waddell confirmed Pompeos visit for Sept. 17-18.
We are indeed preparing for a visit sometime this week. You might have seen correspondence to that effect, but yes we are preparing for him, she said as a plethora of organizations and critics have railed against the visit, calling Pompeos intentions sinister.
Pompeo had been very involved in Guyanas recently concluded and greatly disputed general elections, as he had several times publicly displayed Washingtons preference for the Indo-dominate Peoples Progressive Party, which appears to have mended its decades of poor relations with Washington in recent months. The result is that the U.S., Britain, Canada and the European Union all lined up behind the PPPs campaign, demanding that former president David Granger stepped aside making way for the PPP. The PPP was eventually declared the winner of the general elections, five months after the Guyanese voted in the polls and after a series of court challenges and a 33 day recount of ballots.
Grangers coalition had publicly said that the U.S. had favored the governing Peoples Progressive Party more than the coalition because it turned down a request from the Trump administration to have a stepped up American military presence in Guyana as well as rejected a request for the Voice of America to establish a radio station in Guyanas northwestern region to broadcast propaganda messages to neighboring Venezuela.
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pfitz59
(10,198 posts)in the near future...
2naSalit
(86,061 posts)his fellow cultists.
Judi Lynn
(160,218 posts)That thought probably makes Pompeo and his boss salivate.