The past month has seen an extraordinary escalation in political animosity, much of it trading off Guyana’s deep-seated racial divide. The nadir appeared to have been reached on 11 December when the government felt obliged to warn the international community – through a document sent to the Organization of American States (OAS) – about the opposition’s “consistent undermining and subversion of parliamentary democracy”. Opposition leader David Granger, however, appears unmoved by the government’s appeals not to raise racial tensions any further.
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