By Luis Manuel Aguana
I return to
the same topic I addressed on October 13, 2017, two days before last year's
gubernatorial election (see Abstention in times of collaborationism, in http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_13.html) because I believe that with
different scenarios the same circumstance is occurring. I was saying
last year:
To place in opposition those who wish to vote
with those who do not wish to do so for the international reasons set out above
is, to say the least, an act of misery and abject manipulation of a
collaborationist opposition that needs those votes as a place with purposes
that go in the same direction as the regime's purposes: survival.
Now, two days before the May 20, 2018
elections, has the political actors' purpose of confronting Venezuelans changed
at all by a false choice between voting and not voting? It seems that nothing
has been learned from what happened after October 15, 2017. The governor-elect
of Táchira who knelt before the illegitimate Constituent of Maduro had the same
fate in practice as the governor-elect of Zulia who refused to do so: both are
not in practice governing their federal entities.
Vote in dictatorship? What does that mean? That
is what the Venezuelan really has to ask himself. Either we solve it, or we
will continue to deceive ourselves in the fantasy that a regime like the one in
Venezuela will "surrender " power because the votes ordered it.
Little by little the political leadership has understood what the international
community understood after hundreds of deaths in the streets, and that the
politicians of the MUD still do not understand even though they now say that
they are not going to the 20M elections "for lack of electoral
conditions".
What electoral conditions, for God's sake! Even
the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference has fallen into that trap after a meridian
clarity about the nature of the regime. To demand genuine elections from this
regime is like demanding apples from a mango tree. And if there were, which
would be a complete absurdity due to the authoritarian nature of the regime,
the problem of an illegitimate Constituent that will prevent the change of
power is still unresolved. Quite a dead end trap.
You will say: then what you want is for the
tiger to eat us. No, what I want - and for many years now - is for us all to
row in the same direction and for the same place, even if we have differences.
Not that some Venezuelans will say they will vote because the collaborators
paid for by the regime offer them Disney's fantasy of a return to democracy by
the vote, and others will say they will not vote in hopes that for some
inexplicable reason the regime will go alone. Both positions are a scam to the
people. And in those irreconcilable positions the country is falling apart,
more people dying than in a war.
You may wonder why this is happening. We could
go over many theories here that explain why Venezuelans have not been able to
unite around a common solution to expel these criminals. But that would be
driving in the rearview mirror. Let's look more like forward. Collaborationists
are part of the existence of authoritarian regimes. They will always have an
excuse to justify their existence. So if there had not been Henri Falcón and
all those who accompany him to this election of 20M for the future sustenance
of the regime, you can be sure that it would have been someone else who would
have been willing to take part in this farce. That's
not the problem.
The real problem is that there are still
Venezuelans who have not assumed the authoritarian character of a regime that
seeks to tutelage the lives of all of us, using the means at its disposal, now
including food rationing through a card, a 21st century version of the Cuban
ration cardboard. The success of the regime does not lie in the holding of such
illegally called elections. The success will be that at least one Venezuelan
will attend to certify the farce, and then they will proceed to blow up what is
left of the institutionality.
Falcon's collaborationism using the blackmail
of the vote as the only way out asks Venezuelans to vote on the 20M, the same
blackmail that was used when a group of technicians called for Authentic
Elections without being heard. But they are so collaborationist that now they
will not compete in the elections on May 20, claiming that they will make
fraud, but they certified again and again the CNE traps. Because they are not
now complicit in this election, it does not imply that they are not responsible
for what happens.
Absolutely all the political leaders, even the
most radical ones, who now beat their chests indicating that the elections are
a fraud, said that what they had to do was to get more votes than the regime.
Unfortunately, time proved us right and in the end they understood that you
can't beat a fixed roulette wheel (see in Spanish, Announced CNE chronicle at http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2016/09/cronica-de-un-cne-anunciado.html).
After that, how do you convince people not to
go out and vote, in a contrary speech? That is the real contradiction and that
somehow all Venezuelans will pay after May 20. Someone will go out and vote in
addition to the hard Chavism and the thousands of Venezuelans who are cornered
by hunger will not have any other choice, on pain of having their boxes taken
from CLAP. The people of candidate Henri Falcón, of "El Tigre"
Eduardo Fernández, of "Negro" Claudio Fermín will vote. That is what
the official opposition achieved by giving the regime the electoral
certification for more than 15 years. And that's what they're guilty of. From
those rains will come the mud of May 20.
But after May 20, there will be no more
election speeches to speak of. All Venezuelans will agree on that at least. In
fact, the regime will put an end to the elections as we know them by
promulgating a new communist constitution from the constituent laboratories of
Delcy Rodriguez and his Cuban advisors.
If Falcón, Fermín and
Fernández believe that they will co-govern with Maduro as payment for the
electoral accompaniment of the 20M, they should get off that cloud. Or worse
still, they will fall out of it if they think they will be the new opposition'.
On May 20, a new history will begin where all Venezuelans will agree on
something fundamental by the force of facts: if we do not all summon ourselves
as legitimate depositories of popular sovereignty to decide what to do to
refound Venezuela, we will not get out of the tragedy. After many years and
notes writing down how to do it, I think there are plenty of words...
Caracas,
May 18, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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