Two South American Governments Want to Stay Democratic! Please, help them so to do!

I have resorted to publicizing the institutional group established by Great Britain, the Commonwealth of States as a dedicated, declared organization to promote democracy in the world.  The current Prime Minister of GB, Boris Johnson, headed it before taking on his present duties for his country.

There sits Guyana and Suriname in South America trying to embrace democracy, i.e., display all the features a democracy should possess.  In the August 8th issue of the Economist an article entitled "Oil Futures" raises the skeptical question, "Will they really succeed?  Is there a five-year test, for instance that we can apply to each?  For both these countries are attempting to develop their oil reserves.  Now we know that Nigeria has an abundance of oil, some in production right now.  But oh, how long they have attempted to quell rebellion in the northwest of the country.  Once native energy sources are available for development, that country is prone to internal strife and chaos.  And we know that maintaining democracy is a complicated affair:  look at the questions President Trump is raising about the forthcoming election in the States!

That is why in alluding to the Commonwealth, I have also urged that group find a democracy among its membership that would be willing to steer the avowed democracy around the pitfalls that will mean the doom of any well-intention nation to stand tall for its people (e.g., participating in a free and independent state, where corruption has not permeated its administration).  I have identified such a democratic nation as a mentor to help out a nation willing to become a democracy.

Wasn't that the notion sometime ago of an advanced nation who took on the responsibilities of establishing colonies among budding nations in the Third World?  What has gone wrong?  Nations have turned to autocratic tyrants rather than to their people for determining governmental policies and principles their government proclaims their citizenry are to live by.  These nations have one man or a group of men in charge of their citizenry's well-being; and determine the rules by which a people--no longer free--are to live. Their citizenry must forsake their own independence and their own critical thinking!  For the government who is not their servant!  Indeed, democracy seems on a retreat from the international scene, while so many nations take on one-man rule.

We know that Mali is in the throes of chaos.  Would that some democracy become its mentor for the sake of free peoples the world over, who everyday guide their government, not live in fear lest they fail to comply with the rules laid down by a ruling elite junta. .