The We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party has launched a scathing attack on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-led government, accusing it of exploiting diplomatic channels to spread fear and misinformation during and after the 2025 elections. According to WIN, the line between politics and diplomacy was deliberately blurred to tarnish its reputation in the public eye.
In its recent press statement, WIN alleges that H.E. Carlos Amador Perez Silva, the Venezuelan Ambassador, exposed “blatant lies” propagated by Foreign Minister Hugh Todd and the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)—claims which WIN asserts they were forced to defend publicly.
While the Venezuelan Ambassador confirmed that Nazar Mohamed, the father of Azruddin Mohamed, visited the Venezuelan Embassy in Georgetown to apply for a visa to travel to Caracas, the revelation made no mention of Azruddin himself—contrary to the PPP’s narrative, which sought to imply nefarious ties between the Mohamed family and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
“The fearmongering and lies are finally unravelling,” the party leader declared. WIN suggests that these distortions were especially targeted and timed to mislead voters about supposed ties with the Maduro administration.
WIN also pointed to clarifications from H.E. Nicole D. Theriot following the elections, in which she reportedly affirmed that the United States would work with WIN in Parliament despite existing sanctions. According to WIN, this undercuts what they consider the People’s Progressive Party’s intentional campaign of distortion.
“Even the H.E Nicole D. Theriot, post‑elections clarified that America would find ways to work with me in Parliament, regardless of the sanctions. Proving here again that the PPP deliberately peddled distortion and scare tactics to mislead voters,” the statement reads.
On September 3, 2025 Ambassador Theriot told reporters the United States had found ways to work with made it clear. According to her: “We’ve had OFAC-sanctioned individuals in governments in other places of the world, several in fact, and we find ways to work around that… We wouldn’t be able to work directly with Mr. Mohamed in any sort of transaction or financial situation, but we will be able to work with other parliamentarians and other people on the particular Committee that we are dealing with.”
Mohamed was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on June 11, 2024. The sanctions were imposed under Executive Order 13818.
The party accused the government of using ambassadors as “political pawns” and described its actions as evidence the PPP underpins its power with deception rather than democratic legitimacy. “We are now forced to live under a government that clings to power through lies and propaganda,” WIN said. “The truth is now being revealed, and no number of lies can spin or erase their record of dishonesty.”
Azruddin Mohamed is expected to be named Leader of the Opposition, as his party, WIN, secured the second highest number of votes in the 2025 General and Regional Elections, according to the official declaration by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). This outcome positions WIN as the largest opposition force in the National Assembly.
And as tensions escalate between the two sides, WIN insists it will continue to call out what it sees as systematic misinformation, and demand that the public be informed truthfully rather than manipulated for political gain.
