By Luis Manuel Aguana
"Formula: 1. f. Practical
means proposed to resolve a controversial issue or execute something difficult"
(DRAE, first meaning). And it could not be more controversial or difficult
the Venezuelan issue raised on Monday, November 13, within the Security Council
of the United Nations (UN), convened under the mechanism of the "Formula
Arria". Nobody could say that we Venezuelans will not resolve this issue
ourselves, if to really start to seriously vent this serious problem that
afflicts us we do it under a formula invented by a Venezuelan.
When I learned of the existence of this mechanism in March 2014 by a
reference on Twitter from its own author, Ambassador Diego Arria, in the midst
of the death on the streets of our young people who resurfaced with the death
of Bassil DaCosta on that fateful February 12th of that year, I was horrified
at why the Venezuelan opposition did not make use of this mechanism to prevent
the deaths from continuing. I wrote a note titled “La Fórmula Arria o cuando en
la casa del herrero los cuchillos son de palo” (The Arria Formula or when in
the blacksmith's house the knives are of stick "(see it in spanish at http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2014/03/la-formula-arria-o-cuando-en-la-casa.html)
reviewing the lack of knowledge and/or envy of the Venezuelan opposition to act
immediately to make it known to the world of our tragedy.
More than three years ago, an eternity. How many deaths we could have
saved. That was the taste of those who carried - and still carry - the
franchise of the official Venezuelan opposition. But these mistakes have a very
high cost, and even more so in politics, where the currency for changing
attitudes in most cases is measured with blood, but unfortunately not that of
those who are responsible for these mistakes.
Today, at the instigation of our humanitarian tragedy and even more, of the
geopolitical danger posed by a narco-terrorist regime who runs an entire
country, the Venezuelan case arrives at the United Nations, paradoxically
mounted on the mechanism that Diego Arria invented. I have always said that God
has his hand in all things. Both the Secretary General of the OAS and the
Ambassadors of the United States and Italy, who called the UN Security Council together
with this Formula, publicly acknowledged to our compatriot the initiative of
its creation in favor of the peace of nations, recognition that in Venezuela
has been concealed. I already explained it in my note in 2014, that we have in
our history.
Although the interventions of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Zeid Al Hussein and Julio Henriquez of the Venezuelan Penal Forum exposed the
serious humanitarian and human rights situation of our country, the problem for
the world is not only focused there, but also on the consequences of that
situation. U. S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said in her speech during the Formula
Arria session that “The situation
unfolding in Venezuela is more than a human tragedy. The crisis there today is
a direct threat to international peace and security. Venezuela is an
increasingly violent State. A Narco-State that threatens the region and the
whole world...” (see UN Security Council on Venezuela - ONUConVzla - Arria
Formula. Full discussion, https://youtu.be/EMr9f-bXB1g
minute 41:57). And that is the basic
point that really summons the Council: the security of the region, given the
political and economic instability of our country.
The intervention of the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, is a
computerized tomography of what is happening in Venezuela. Almagro deepened the
seriousness of the threat: "Venezuela
is, in the first place, a threat to the stability and security of the Americas.
It has drug trafficking installed in the government dome. The nephews of the
presidential couple are being tried in New York for drug trafficking. The Vice
President has been classified as a drug trafficking ringleader and he has
frozen goods by the hundreds but billions of dollars. The Minister of the
Interior has an international accusation for drug trafficking. They create ties
with international networks and groups classified as terrorists, giving Venezuelan
passports to connoted international criminals. No one should choose the path of
ignoring this information ... ".
The repeated warnings made by the United States at the UN regarding
Venezuela have been corroborated in the sense that, as the situation of human
rights violations in the country has worsened, bordering countries have been
significantly affected by the violence generated by the regime of Nicolás
Maduro. According to Ambassador Haley, countries such as Syria, Southern Sudan
and Burma are examples of countries that have already traveled the path of
Venezuela and subsequently fell into conflict. The United States believes that
we are on the same path and they are encouraged that other countries are
determined to resolve our situation and warned here that they will not allow
it.
From that meeting of the Security Council through the mechanism of the
Formula Arria, and the political leadership of the world is officially informed
of the concern of the first power to resolve as soon as possible the situation
in Venezuela and will continue to press -for our good luck- because so be it.
This was a necessary and transcendental step that, starting today, has many
international backing. I had to pass this formal meeting of the Security
Council in this Formula for the world to find out about our tragedy. It has
already been aired and now the formal implications will continue.
In that sense, Ambassador Haley's closing words sound premonitory:"We want to send a firm message to the
Maduro regime: we are waiting, we do not allow ourselves to be deceived, our
commitment with the Venezuelan people does not end in this meeting. Today we
meet to talk about peace and security, but at the center of all this is the
people, the people, people like Deivis Perez (see CNN's note in "We are
suffering in a hospital": a child loses his life in the midst of the
medical crisis in Venezuela, at http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2017/10/25/estamos-sufriendo-en-un-hospital-un-nino-pierde-la-vida-en-medio-de-la-crisis-medica-en-venezuela/
). We will continue to sound the alarms, raise awareness and take steps to
honor your memory. Our message to the people of Venezuela today is that they
will not give up. May they not give up hope for themselves and their families.
We don't want to give up. We don't want to despair. And we will continue to
fight for their voices to be heard. There's light at the end of the tunnel. The
light of freedom, dignity, security and prosperity is still possible. And for
those who have difficulty imagining this future today, let them know: the world
is increasingly united in its efforts to regain respect for human rights and
fundamental freedoms for all Venezuelan people. Justice will come..." .
On Monday, November 13, the United States made it clear to the world
that we are meeting today to talk about peace and security, but people come
first. That we do not stop fighting for our freedom because they will accompany
us in that struggle, together with the rest of those who are increasingly
united to recover “respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms for all the Venezuelan people”. A good
understanding few words. Now I do believe that finally "justice will come"...
Caracas, November 15, 2017
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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