‘U.S. is ‘re-colonising’ the Caribbean’ - Former President, Ramotar

(Kaieteur News) – Former President Donald Ramotar has accused the United States of pursuing a form of “re-colonisation” of Latin America and the Caribbean, arguing that Washington is increasingly using its economic, political and military power to dictate the affairs of sovereign states.

But Ramotar’s criticism comes against the backdrop of a striking contradiction at home: his own political party, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), is in government in Guyana and has itself taken positions that mirror some of the policies he now condemns.

In a strongly worded letter to the editor, Ramotar said the region was once subjected to colonial rule by European powers including Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, France and Portugal, but is now facing what he described as a new form of domination by the United States. “Latin America and the Caribbean countries are being re-colonised,” Ramotar wrote, arguing that the United States has moved away from its earlier anti-colonial posture and has become, in effect, “a super colonial power.”