By Luis Manuel Aguana
About 30 years ago, my professor of
International Negotiation, Dr. Carlos Guerón, told us in class that you could
not sit down to negotiate about God with Ayatolah Komeini. It was just not only
stupid, but completely useless. Something similar is happening to us in these
"negotiations" with the regime and the international community,
acting as an intermediary because they want peace and quiet among Venezuelans.
But read well. One thing is the peace that our
friends outside need that we have, and another very different may be what we
Venezuelans need here. And here I want to be as precise as a scalpel. If
Venezuela were in a situation that did not affect our neighbours on the continent,
that is, people were not leaving en masse or we could pay our commitments
without any problems, there could be a cemetery here and everyone outside would
be calm. But who would be screwed up will be us.
And returning to Ayatolah Komeini, can anyone
argue with a communist about the Bolshevik revolution, the assault on the Cuartel
Moncada or that the imperialists did not assassinate Salvador Allende? Should
we negotiate with drug traffickers and terrorists? Could we negotiate with
those who wiped out our country like locusts and accept that, and leave in
peace? Let's be serious.
Our friends in the International Community
handle very respectable interests like everyone else, but there is a gap
between accepting cemetery peace and the peace that comes from freedom and
democracy. Of course there are nuances. On the one hand, we see Luis Almagro in
the OAS on the side of the second peace, true peace, and on the other hand, the
joker of the José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero regime, hoping that the rest of us
Venezuelans will accept, as Florido and Borges have already accepted, the peace
of the cemeteries.
Let our esteemed friends of the world
understand it well: the only thing that can be negotiated with Nicolas Maduro
and his thousand thieves are the terms of his departure from government. And
that does not mean, as those who gave themselves up - not to say sold - that we
should kill ourselves in a civil conflict, nor foreign intervention or accept
constituent fraud.
It is not possible for deputies Luis Florido
and Julio Borges representing their parties to negotiate the non-negotiable,
which is nothing more than the will of 7.6 million Venezuelans who were given a
precise mandate by the 16J that they decided to betray. They have neither the
right nor the legitimacy to do so because we Venezuelans told them precisely
the opposite. That's why Soy Venezuela is born because someone must assume that
attitude in defense of those we democratically counted on 16J and because
Venezuelans don't need someone to empower us to do it because democracy and
freedom don't need investiture to be defended.
When asked by the International Community, what
are the options? Well, there are. On
October 28, the National Constituent Alliance proposed to the world a road to
travel, which will again involve consulting Venezuelans about its titled
destiny: “La solución reside en el pueblo soberano” (see http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2017/10/la-solucion-reside-en-el-pueblo-soberano.html) with a letter addressed to deputies of the National Assembly (see http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2017/11/carta-la-asamblea-nacional-06-11-2017.html). I will try to explain briefly
what that path is. It's easy to understand. The path begins with the National
Assembly, by simple majority of its members, calling for a Consultative
Referendum based on Article 71 of the Constitution for Matters of Special
National Transcendence in the terms indicated below:
1) Does it or not approve of the Venezuelans
agreeing to a genuine process of reunion and national reconciliation, which
will guarantee in peace the transformation and refoundation of the country, and
avoid a painful confrontation between brothers with serious and irreparable
consequences?
In the same spirit of the Colombian peace
process, the Venezuelan people would be consulted about the end of a low-intensity
conflict to which Venezuelans have been subjected by the discourse of
separation and hatred initiated by Hugo Chávez Frías and which split us in two
as a society. This process of reconciliation, reunification, transformation and
reconstruction must be carried out within the framework of a scenario where all
tendencies and sectors of the country are legitimately represented. In our
opinion, this is the definition of a constituent process that originated in the
context of a serious state of political confrontation, with a National
Constituent Assembly as the setting.
2) Does it approve or not to declare dissolved the
National Constituent Assembly summoned by the government and revoke and declare
null and void all its decisions?
Although Maduro's National Constituent Assembly
has been convoked inconstitutionally and is fraudulent in origin, because by
means of "crime news" we learned that the CNE put in no less than one
million ghost votes for it to look like we Venezuelans voted for that fraud, there
were Venezuelans who legitimately attended the vote in that process, which
could not be ignored by dismissing their vote. And although the TSJL (TSJ
Legitimate) that sits outside Venezuela has ruled in favor of the elimination
of that illegal and unconstitutional National Constituent Assembly, only the
people of Venezuela can decide to confirm that dissolution of the fraudulent
Constituent Assembly and declare its acts null and void, so that there is no
doubt of anyone -officialists, opponents and the International Community-
inside and outside Venezuela that this is the decision in itself.
3) Does it approve or not that the people of
Venezuela, as depository of the original constituent power, have the initiative
and convoke a legitimate National Constituent Assembly by Popular Initiative
with Electoral Bases, which incorporate proportionally, the broadest citizen
representation and the principle of universality of the vote? If positive,
sign the attached Signature Collection Form.
Read well, we are NOT asking the people to
support a constituent. We are consulting the people, as it should be, whether
they want it or not, which are two very different things. And in case you want
it, then sign the Collection of Signatures Form and approve the Electoral Bases
that we will present, which guarantee proportional representation, the
participation of all sectors of national life and the principle of universality
of the vote. Because, although it is true that the people are one of those who
can take the initiative to summon the Constituent Assembly in accordance with
Article 348 of the Constitution, it must reach a minimum of 15% in order for
that constituent consultation to be carried out in this same act. We in the
National Constituent Alliance will advocate for convincing Venezuelans, as we
have done in the last three years in our travels around the country, because we
believe that a constitutional structural reform is necessary to bring about the
materialization of a Decentralized Federal State and the discussion of a new
post-oil country.
4) Does it approve or not that a legitimate
Original National Constituent Assembly appoints a Transitional Government of
National Unity and the Renewal of Public Powers in compliance with the mandate
of the July 16 Popular Consultation?
This is the materialization of question No. 3 of the Popular
Consultation of 16J. And it is extremely important because in this case it
would no longer be the mandate that the National Assembly openly ignored, but
rather a mandate of the people to the constituent citizens elected from an
original National Constituent Assembly, so that body would not be disposing of
the public powers alone, as it is already doing Maduro with the fraudulent
constitutional spurious, but by express mandate of the People Depository of
Sovereignty in a consultative referendum.
These 4 questions resolve three fundamental
issues: a) the deviation of the regime that summoned without authorization of
the people to a Constituent Assembly and all its unconstitutional acts; b) the
immediate installation of a Government of National Union with the renewal of
all the Public Powers, as it was ordered to the National Assembly on 16J; and
c) the discussion of the country among all in a great reconciliatory dialogue
of the Venezuelans and for the Venezuelans.
Why do we ask that this Consultative Referendum
be initially processed by the CNE? Because that is the Electoral Power and it is
the legal and constitutional obligation of the National Assembly to
appoint it autonomously and give guarantees to all Venezuelans to carry out
Authentic Elections in accordance with international standards. We won't stop
here about why they're not doing it. It is our duty to apply for it properly
and we have done so much in the Communiqué "The solution lies with the sovereign
people" and the letter addressed to the National Assembly on 6
November. But if they do not do so, the National Constituent Alliance will
inform the country of the steps that will continue thereafter.
That's the route, not another. Those 4
questions will define the destiny of Venezuela, and according to them the
proposal is that it be the brave people, the one with the hymn, who will end up
solving their own grave situation, not those who caused it in 1998, which are
mostly the same people who are selling us in the Dominican Republic. If that
brave people did it in the past in 1811, going through a war where they put the
dead, they will do it again now because they has been putting them in the same
way for a long time.
Caracas, November 23, 2017
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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