Former United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to Guyana this week where he met with President Irfaan Ali was “all personal and private,” government sources say.
The sources did not answer if Pompeo was invited by the President and would only say that discussions were private and that the visit was “not funded by the state either.”
In September of 2020 and not long after the swearing in of President Ali following the 2020 general elections impasse, Pompeo became the first sitting US Secretary of State to visit Guyana, which the US government at the time said was proof of how deeply the US values its relationship with Guyana.
