Beyond the criminal state: The dynamics of state terrorism and looting national resources

Part2

 

Introduction

 

Last week, in Part 1 of this four-part series of columns I had argued that the proximate or immediately preceding factor driving the several ongoing crises and threatening contradictions in Guyana (starkly symbolized in the presidential prorogation of the National Assembly on November 10, 2014) has been the uncontrolled torrent of financial abuses, irregularities, and lawlessness perpetrated by the PPP/C executive since the November 2011 elections. As we know, those elections had resulted in the PPP/C administration dependent on a minority in the National Assembly.

In support of this proposition I catalogued the ten most egregious of these financial abuses. They range from the executive’s