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Oct 02, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
In the Mephistophelean, Freudian and Shakespearian dramas of Guyanese society, there is hardly time for a columnist to reflect on foreign affairs issues.
In the place of this article, I could have done a reflection on the fear traffic policemen drive into young motorists or I could have taken a look at the illegalities Christopher Ram has brought to light in relation to the Government’s handling of CLICO’s liquidation.
I could also have done an analysis of Mr. Jagdeo’s performance so far now that he is about to ride away in the sunset, or even examine the electoral chances of the PNC.
There is so much to write about in this country that it is virtually a sin to pen a column on foreign affairs.
It is nice to take a break from the pathologies of this country. So on this, the start of a new month and on a Saturday that I plan to lime and eat some black-pudding, I will take my exit from the Guyanese society and briefly look at three episodes of life on the international scene.
First, Mr. Tony Blair’s autobiography is making news. I was glad that Labour under Blair had won though I had preferred Lib/Dems. I am not a fan or ever will be of the British Conservative Party.
As Blair settled into power, it was clear he was very far from the politics of my second favourite American president after Barack Obama, Bill Clinton.
Blair took New Labour and made it into a conservative party. He showed subtle touches of power obsession and openly embraced an extreme form of capitalist politics. I think a combination of both drove him into the arms of President Bush. I haven’t read his autobiography but given all that I have read and believe about him over the past ten years, I will not rule out outright lies.
I honestly feel Blair went to war to please President Bush and had no conviction of his own. The Iraqi war was not his downfall as many believe. Blair agreed to share power with Gordon Brown after the first election victory but reneged on it. Brown’s men in the leadership of the Labour Party vowed never to let him rest. The rest is now history.
Castro is making eerie noises in Cuba that makes you feel that he may be losing it. Like most freshmen at university anywhere in the world, I liked Castro, was attracted to Marxism and anti-imperialism.
As I grew older, understood more philosophy, read more philosophers and saw what Castro had become, I dropped him like hot potatoes. I despise Fidel Castro. He is a massive political failure. I think he is a tropical Mussolini that practices fascism. Castro should have been removed from power and tried by his people for extreme authoritarianism and jailed for life.
The world should never have left Castro destroy his people the way he has. Just imagine those people cannot own their own cell phones, DVD players and cannot travel abroad.
At 84, Castro is sounding weird. He says the most macabre things. He believes there is going to be a third world war and nuclear perdition is coming and it will destroy mankind.
Lately, he wrote a column saying that the US is plotting to throw nuclear bombs on Iran. Castro has been upstaged by Obama. Nobody listens to Castro anymore because a beautiful soul has become the President of the US and he has stolen the world’s limelight. Castro then has to keep inventing tall stories about America’s intention to imprison the world.
Finally, another tropical Mussolini is being laughed at. Hugo Chavez is now the biggest joke around the world. So popular he is, according to Chavez himself, so loved he is by the Venezuelan people, according to Chavez himself, so generous he is to the Venezuelan people, according to Chavez himself that he is Venezuela’s saviour and hero who is worshiped in every corner of the country.
Yet this “generous” leader couldn’t even win a two/thirds majority in parliamentary elections. And to crown it all, he faced a weak opposition that didn’t even have seats in the current parliament after they boycotted the last elections.
He is going to lose presidential elections once the opposition knocks itself into shape. In closing, let me tell readers about a detail of Chavez that is not popularly known. Do you know the presidential jet of Chavez is one of the most expensive planes in the world far outstripping the presidential jets of countries far richer than Venezuela.
One writer says its interior decoration is decadently lavish.
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