“Guyana is certainly not Venezuela; let’s keep it that way.” – US Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann Lynch
The United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann Lynch, has yesterday, 2nd of April, released a statement on the US Embassy Official Website explaining the difference between “foreign interference” and “good diplomacy.”
This comes after a number of statements released from the APNU/AFC camp have accused foreign powers, especially the ABCE countries, of foreign interference, and called on these countries to respect Guyana‘s sovereignty.
In fact, the Prime Minister of Guyana, Mr. Moses Nagamootoo, has recently announced the government’s plan to investigate foreign observers, accusing them of siding with the opposition, the PPP/C. This amounts to a backward step of using taxpayer’s money to suppress the voice of the majority while making Guyana look like an enemy of transparency and democracy.
The United States’ Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann Lynch, in the official statement released yesterday on the website of the US Embassy to Guyana, explained that Guyana had, in January 2019, joined other Lima Group members in the Americas to condemn the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela.
Further, the US Ambassador made a statement that has strong underlying implications: “Guyana is certainly not Venezuela; let’s keep it that way.”
It is sad that a diplomat needed to go as far as explaining simple concepts to the Guyanese parliament, since it implies a lack of literacy on the part of those Guyanese to whom the statement is directed. But when you had to go all the way up to the Caribbean Court of Justice to learn that 33 is greater than 32, what better can one expect?
