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Aug 05, 2008 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
Rafael Trotman’s anti-Chavez campaign — actively propagated by Stabroek News (04/07/08) — is not new.
He and a handful of uneducated and reactionary reporters in Guyana peddle the idea that we have to be “watchful of Venezuela taking over Guyana”. Where is the evidence, Mr Trotman?
The truth is that Venezuela under Hugo Chavez has saved Guyana from a major economic and social crisis by selling Guyana oil at a concessional rate (through the PetroCaribe agreement) that no other country will offer us.
Trotman and his pro-U.S. party (the AFC) does not tell the Guyanese people and our compatriots abroad that we pay only 60% for our oil upfront and the rest — 40% — over a period of 25 years at one percent interest.
Yes, believe it: 1%!!! Now, the so-called border dispute was created by our colonial masters — the British in the case of Guyana, and the Spanish in the case of Venezuela. The old ruling class parties in Venezuela continue to perpetuate this claim.
President Chavez is the first head of state in that country who is talking of renouncing the claim and moving towards regional development that will finally unite the entire South American Region — where there will be no borders and there will be no claim.
That is our future. Could anyone imagine that could have every happened in this era?
Mike Rahman
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