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It has been the most unanticipated kind of intervention, given its long and influential record in the
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electoral history of Guyana. Today, the United States first signalled its interest, then persevered with Cookie policy
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its positions, and now, in a series of slow but unmistakable steps has evidenced its ongoing
commitment to stay the course through the minefield and graveyard that Elections 2020 Guyana has
become. There is no retreating by the Americans, be they in Georgetown or in Washington, as they
have manifested at every level sharp, but still measured, distaste for where matters stand.
The latest is the extended round of the continuous calling of things for what they are in subdued
diplomatic speech, of insistently cajoling towards the reality of a different set of procedures and
standards, and a distinctive cluster of related behaviours, be such from the courts, or GECOM, or
coalition and opposition leadership. The weight of pressures applied has been on the coalition, which
has to be taken aback, if not shocked, by what it has been on the receiving end of, when the
messages are sifted and interpreted.
It may be called the New World Order, to stretch things a shade: the judicata Americana Guyana, a
la George Bush the First, in the aftermath of the holocaust of 9/11. It started very assertively at the
level of the US Ambassador to Guyana, escalated to the assistant secretary for hemispheric affairs
at the State Department, and then came repeatedly from the very top from the Secretary of State.
The language throughout has fallen short of the fusillades hurled by Guyanese at Guyanese, but
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there can be no misinterpreting the strength of intent and the sustained pressures being brought to
bear for a credible outcome to Elections 2020.
All the messages from all the Americans have been tempered but tough: do it right! Get it right! Cut
right to the chase. From all indications, the Americans seem willing to part company with
longstanding local political friends. It is willing to incur new enemies, if that is the price to be paid,
and even if this means clasping hands with political folks once found reprehensible. As a reminder,
the key operating principle of the Americans, in the best and imitation of arch imperialist, Lord
Palmerston, is always what is best for their own interests.
While there have been some speculative sounds about recent American naval movements in the
vicinity, Guyana is neither Iraq nor Haiti nor Grenada, not by any means currently. So, things are
being handled more covertly in Guyana via less obvious channels and people. Many back channels
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organizations that have emerged to question or condemn anything that looks a hair out of place.
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But the objections are not from Guyanese alone. Because as the still mighty United States goes so
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does most of the Western world. Not slavishly, but as a matter of taking the high ground. Some solid
economies world-wide to halt and Guyana is no
ones are stood on by the outsiders, including insistent calls and postures for democratic processes
exception. The two International Airports and
to prevail, for transparent standards to be the primary ingredients of the day. For credible results to
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distilled and transformed inexorably into what has to be as near flawless as possible, with a flurry of
transparency attachments enthusiastically daily making the rounds.
In some regards, rather unwittingly and definitely unthinkingly, Guyana could become the model for
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national sovereignty and adherence to broadening 21st century international norms and best
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practices. The watchfulness, the interest, the energies are all there. and so, too, were the demanding
and correcting, the guiding hands and reprimanding voices, as characterized by the pressuring via
the nuanced and noisy, the resolute and the rambunctious, from the respective foreign and domestic
communities. They will talk at length and with spirit about all that transpired. Plans to resuscitate
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two decades ago, relative to the invasion of Iraq. That has since fallen flat on the weight of its

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benefit of the doubt, if only in their willingness in saying the right things, standing for what is  Apr 12, 2020
acceptable by any honest measurement, and leading the charge for a result that passes muster in
terms of its rightness. To do otherwise would have been criminally collusive.
As all of this is examined holistically, and with review of the obscene way all this has unfolded, it
should not be mistaken for, or compared to, any road to Emmaus. That it was not, for there were ‘Postponement of the
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lacking in the principles most needed, when demanded.
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Into these vacuums of power, the Americans have been unrelenting in their interests, unflagging in
their efforts, and unmistakable in their objectives. Those are: do it cleanly. Do it accurately. Just get it
done.
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