Jul 09, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – The recent statement by the Government of Guyana on Cuba represents a startling departure from the position that Guyana itself has consistently articulated at the United Nations General Assembly under President Mohamed Irfaan Ali. Rather than a carefully calibrated foreign policy intervention, the statement appears rushed, poorly considered and internally inconsistent with the very positions advanced by Guyana’s own Head of State over the past several years.

The language of the statement is striking because it avoids the central issue that has dominated Guyana’s own diplomatic interventions on Cuba: the impact of the United States economic embargo and the recent naval oil embargo aimed at crippling Cuba.