Dear Editor,
On a different note, there is hope for We Invest in Nationhood, Mr. Azruddin Mohamed and kin. Look at it this way. When the Yankees set their sights on something, it usually ends up inside their fence. For decades, various U.S. presidents had their eyes on the Venezuelan oil fields. An American dealmaker and a Venezuelan pretender (a 12th woman) got it done.
Did somebody say something about duress? Who cares? Why should that matter? Happens in the hallowed halls of the CCJ, therefore, it should be fair game in the halls of oil commerce. I think that Senora Delcy just became the frontrunner for the Nobel Prize in Economics.
The Donald should snare the one in physics. He moved a mountain, made it come his way. In the instance of WIN Mohamed, the U.S. has some serious interest in what’s inside his head. If he has the goods on one farm, and one contract, he could have as much as a hundred more such farms, contracts, and real estate in his portfolio of secrets.
My advice to him is simple: give the Americans what they want, but extract the biggest returns for himself. In black and white. Witnessed. Stamped. Sealed and signed. I doubt that the PPP of Ali and Jagdeo (Nandlall, too) are too keen on letting the Americans that deep into their parlor.
It’s why I have repeatedly gone out on a limb and warned them: think carefully about their Mohamed strategy. Take eyes off 2030-31. Focus on him, and keeping him here. Remember that verse of Mafia scripture: keep friends close, keep enemies (and former friends) closer. So close that they can’t breathe.
Last, I foresee an end to the Guyana-Venezuela border mishmash. Why partition the fields, the oil bonanzas? Like Alexander the Great, Don the Dominator is the best man to untie this hemisphere’s Gordian knot.
The Persians can have Hormuz, convert it to a shrine. I believe this best oil deal ever will only last as long as Donny and Delcy are in charge. Remember I said so.
Yours truly,
GHK Lall
