Reply to "AFC `hijacked’ by pro-PNC faction- Henry Jeffrey"

ksazma posted:

 

When President Desmond Hoyte took power in August 1985 after the death of Forbes Burnham, he declared his intention to speed up "the pursuit of socialist construction" in Guyana. He re-emphasised this assertion after he reinforced his power at grossly rigged elections four months later.

In fact were you not locked up in your Indo KKK cabin you would have known that when Burnham died Hammie Green had the muscle within the PNC and he and Viola Burnham were hardliners.  Hoyte at the time lacked any pull within the PNC so had to mouth whatever pleased that faction until he was able to develop his own clout. 

He was viewed as a technical and not a political minister and was far away from the hardline apparatus of the PNC. This being the YSM, the House of Israel (both Green controlled) and the WRSM controlled by Viola. She was adamant in not allowing Hoyte to "destroy" her husband's legacy by dismantling his socialist mess.

Please research how Hoyte arrested the House of Israel mobsters and how Janet freed them and invited them to join the PPP.  Those were Hammie Greene's muscle which is why Hoyte ridded the PNC of them as soon as he had the clout to do so. And when he had the clout he moved Guyana away from socialism and began to begin the process of privatization.  This was around 1989.  This when he was able to sideline the PNC hardliners and develop a more moderate constituency within the PNC apparatus.

I also suggest that you research the fact that Hoyte was called "Desi Persaud" by Hammie Green hardliners.