Por Luis Manuel Aguana
I hadn't
realized the degree of distortion of Venezuelan public opinion until I heard
the questions that the young journalists asked us after reading the communiqué
that we addressed to the country at the installation of the Soy Venezuela
Advisory Council on Monday, November 20. (see http://www.soy-venezuela.com/soyvenezuela-exige-condiciones-una-negociacion-verdad-la-se-cumpla-mandato-del-16j-salida-del-regimen/). “Are you asking for a place in the Dominican Republic's dialogue? Do
you propose candidates for the next elections?” was the tonic of questions
asked at the end of the statement. Oh, my God! What part of Venezuela is
destroyed you didn't understand?
The same
could be said of all the rubbish that the new key ex-MUD-Régimen transmits
every day to Venezuelans, in a sort of goebbelian mazacote that I repeat a
million times makes people believe it, even journalists. Imagine what that
Venezuelan will think of going out to look for food to survive on a daily
basis.
The
government says "we give them what they want": elections of all
kinds, release of political prisoners, humanitarian channel, in exchange of
recognition of the Constituent Assembly, approving the refinancing of the
monstrous debt and going to the United States to remove the sanctions. And the
country's leaning towards that, not realizing it's a trap. What does it matter
to the regime that Ramos Allup, Borges or any supposed opponent be President,
Governor or Mayor if tomorrow he can dismiss him if they want to with his
superpowerful Constituent? What prevents them from or cares about breaking any
promises once their fraudulent constituent is recognized? "St. Lucia isn't worth after the eye has been removed",
the saying goes.
But the regime
has hostages and accomplices. And I do not know who is who. If VP is a hostage
and PJ-AD-UNT are accomplices. Or the 4 are accomplices. The truth is that they
are playing a dangerous game against the Venezuelans who ordered the 16J a
mandate that is not yet fulfilled. Who from VP is in that? Leopoldo? Florido?
Both? Or Florido stayed with the party of Leopoldo and is acting alone bundled
with Ramos? The truth is that many VP people are disgusted because they are
people who saw in that party a hope to see politics in a different way with a
new leadership. But apparently the disappointment is worse...
And when someone,
I do not say Soy Venezuela, anyone who says that decency should be rescued in
politics, let's put Venezuela first, leaving aside aspirations, candidacies, or
"put me in the play", people do not understand it. It's missed. What
are these people talking about? Are there people who do not have an interest in
something in politics? They do not believe it. That is why all the questions
refer to the toxicity of the regime's discourse and its opposition. Well
you have to change that paradigm now...
For years the
promoters of the National Constituent Alliance have spoken that it is necessary
to discuss the country seriously. That must be done because it has reached a
state of total institutional destruction. It is impossible to approach a new
government without doing that before. Any government that is made after this
regime must face a completely destroyed country and if it is not endowed with
an institutional framework and new operating political structures will fail,
achieving a social disappointment that is hardly tolerable by the most needy.
That could roll back all the achievements that have been achieved just for
having shaken the regime. And that happens by discussing the country in the
ideal forum that is none other than the constituent forum convened by the same
depository of sovereignty. It is not an easy subject but it is necessary to
approach it for more that they do not wish to do it and for that reason we
become annoying.
Some say
that I advance this discussion because we still have the problem of the regime.
I don't think so. I think that the citizens should be aware of the whole route,
not only that of leaving the regime, but also that of where we are going to
fall after it. I believe that this was the grave situation of that fateful
April 11,2002, when although the brave people of Venezuela managed to shake
Chavez, those who took control threw what cost the blood of Baralt Avenue into
a sewer. I'm determined not to let that happen to us again.
More than
15 long years have passed since then, and there are some boys who were in
primary school at the time and who are now opposition deputies and do not seem
to understand the magnitude of this very serious problem and see them sought
mayoralties and supporting a meaningless "dialogue" with the
government. I'll be asking for lemons from a mango bush? The young journalists
who asked the questions after the statement of the Soy Venezuela Advisory
Council illustrate the confusion that the country has.
My always
astonished friend, Dr. Rosa María Zulueta, a recently disappeared social
psychologist, said that the regime had deliberately applied to us a strategy -
in her own words - of "violent speeches, intolerance,
blackmail and manipulation, deceptions and rebounds of guilt, human rights
violations, political discrimination, inefficiency, corruption and
poverty". And that this strategy of domination had produced "breakthroughs in logic, hopelessness,
helplessness, uncertainty, frustration, resentment, toxic rage, paranoia and
reactivity". (see Rosa María Zulueta, ciudadana integral, en http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2017/03/rosa-maria-zulueta-ciudadana-integral.html).
Those
breakdowns of logic are what we're seeing. We don't understand what happens
because the country is turned upside down and many of those who are going to
the Dominican Republic as hostages or accomplices of the regime do so not only
because they have surrendered, but because they truly believe that what they
are doing is right, and in that way they drag all Venezuelans into frustration.
That's the serious thing! An enormous effort must be made to put the country
into the right logic. First things first. Recognize who we are and what we can
do.
The older
ones should and we have the responsibility to put things in their place, so
that the boys can then lead them. The country is turned upside down like when a
car turns around after an accident and is left with the wheels up, and you have
to make the effort to turn it upside down and put the wheels on the pavement to
make it roll again. What a group of Venezuelans did when they made that
statement by Soy Venezuela was just the beginning of that effort...
Caracas, November 21, 2017
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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