Last week, Guyana’s Foreign Minister uttered one of the most alarming admissions we’ve heard in recent years: “Given that we have close to 100,000 persons of direct or indirect Venezuelan ancestry currently in Guyana, shouldn’t this reality give all Guyanese a cause to be alert?” It was framed as a call for vigilance, but to any thinking citizen, it confirmed what many of us have long suspected, the PPP government has lost the plot.
In what must be one of the most reckless and short-sighted political strategies in our history, the PPP seems to believe that Venezuelan migrants might be their answer to a growing ethnic numbers problem. Their traditional base is bleeding, thousands of Indo-Guyanese have exited the country using chain migration, abandoning this so-called “prosperity nation” for lives of basic dignity abroad. And now, the PPP is desperately looking for new voters. They think importing and naturalizing tens of thousands of Venezuelan migrants will shore up their slipping electoral grip. They actually believe these people will vote for them. God help us, we are led by idiots.
The signs of this desperation are everywhere. It is a government terrified of numbers. They cling to a voters’ list that nearly matches our national population and resist all efforts to clean it. They reject biometric voting that would help ensure free and fair elections. They’ve suddenly developed an uncharacteristic interest in Afro-Guyanese communities, despite decades of economic and political oppression. They’re pushing to infiltrate the Christian church community, 60% of the population, with state-sponsored propaganda. They’re bullying Indigenous leaders into rejecting visits from opposition figures and civil activists like the Mohammeds. It’s not outreach; it’s panic wrapped in optics.
Now comes the bombshell, the PPP has apparently welcomed 100,000 Venezuelan migrants, nearly 13% of our national population, into Guyana, a country where all it takes is two years of residency to apply for citizenship. That’s the equivalent of 20 seats in Parliament. And somehow, they believe this will work in their favor. But this isn’t just political folly. It’s strategic insanity. The reality is far more dangerous. These migrants are culturally distinct, many speak Spanish as a first language, and some may be loyal to another flag. Given the escalating threat from the Maduro regime, there’s a real possibility that among these individuals are operatives, saboteurs, or military interlopers waiting to act.
What the PPP fails to consider is the more likely scenario, the emergence of a new political force. One that speaks the language, addresses the needs of these new residents, and offers them direct representation. And just like that, a quiet coup. No bullets. No barricades. Just ballots. And Guyana, governed by fools, will have facilitated its own internal takeover.
This is a nation in crisis. The opposition has long demanded answers, How many migrants are in the country? How many have been granted citizenship? Where are they settled? What screening has been done? What protections exist? And for years, the PPP’s response has been silence, defensive, evasive, calculated silence.
Now, as Venezuela’s aggression becomes more direct, the government suddenly wants to warn the population and call for vigilance. But where was that vigilance when it actually mattered, when the borders were open, when the naturalization process remained unchecked, when the electorate was being quietly transformed? That horse has bolted. The damage is done. The fools welcomed it.
This is not nation-building. It is a dangerous game of ethnic arithmetic, played by a regime out of ideas, out of integrity, and out of time. They would rather sell our sovereignty for votes than admit they’ve failed to inspire the very citizens they were elected to serve. They won’t clean the voters list. They won’t modernize the electoral system. They won’t share power. But they will gamble with the future of this country, just to survive one more election cycle.
We see them. We see the desperation. And we will not forget. Because we are the generation that will inherit this mess, or rise to stop it.
