By Luis
Manuel Aguana
There
seems to be discomfort in Padrino due to the suspension of dialogue
in Barbados. In fact, the Minister of Defense made a public call to
return to the negotiating table because: "We Bolivarians believe
in humanity, in the human being, in reason, in ideas. On the other
hand, we do not believe, nor do we want war. We only believe in war
if it is necessary to give freedom, independence and sovereignty to
Venezuela" (¿?) (see in
Spanish
the news in a media outlet of the regime
https://www.conelmazodando.com.ve/padrino-lopez-hacemos-un-llamado-a-la-fanb-a-fortalecer-su-conciencia-patriotica).
Said
this by the one who has allowed the greatest invasion of foreign
military forces in our country since its foundation, his work being
to guarantee the defense and integrity of the Republic, putting the
Cubans to direct our Armed Forces, he shouts that he is not even from
afar prepared to "give freedom, independence and sovereignty to
Venezuela". Impossible more pathetic.
In
addition to the contradictory statements of Padrino, since it was the
regime that suspended the negotiations in Barbados, it is worth
asking if it said so in order to mend the dialogue with the official
opposition, given that they are the ones who lose the most in this
regard. In other words, they recognize with that statement that it
was stupid to have stopped the table and they send Padrino to say it.
It is the regime that is tied to that table, and it is the opposition
that gives them oxygen by continuing to attend it.
I
have no doubt that the official opposition wants to sit down again
with the regime despite John Bolton's statements, closing that door
once and for all. However, based on these statements by the United
States national security adviser, the official opposition cannot
offer the regime that they will mediate to have any sanctions removed
for any agreement reached in Barbados. As a result, the regime does
not see Barbados as making any more sense and effectively begins to
move with actions that were stopped by that dialogue, among them the
most important: tightening the siege to annul the National Assembly,
the only bastion of opposition power.
But
for those of us Venezuelans who closely follow this serialized soap
opera, we are waiting for the next step of that opposition that acts
according to the slogan of Eudomar Santos: "as it comes, we're
watching. Because the government does act on different alternative
boards and to show a button: the regime's consultation.
Just
one month ago, on July 15, 2019, the digital media published a news
item that initially went unnoticed: the opposition that accompanied
Maduro to the May 20, 2018 elections publicly proposed a Consultative
Referendum for "the renewal of Public Powers". In this
proposal, three particularly relevant points were highlighted: "7)
We propose to call a consultative referendum, based on articles 2, 5,
70 and 71 of the Constitution, to consult the sovereign on the call
for general elections that will allow the renewal of all national
Public Powers; 8) We demand that in order to make this proposal a
reality, negotiations be held and maintained over time between the
parties* with the participation of all the national political
diversity and not only of the elites that make up the two
co-responsible poles of the crisis. 9 We also demand that before any
electoral convocation, a new CNE* should be designated as a prior
condition by consensus of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial
Powers."(see in
Spanish
Alianza por el Referendo Consultivo, nuestras 10 razones, in
http://www.noticierodigital.com/2019/07/alianza-por-el-referendo-consultivo-nuestras-10-razones/).
In other
words, a Consultation proposed by the "opposition" of
convenience (paid?) of the regime, made with a CNE agreed upon by the
de facto government of Maduro, which decides whether or not to
replace the Public Powers whose lapses are constitutionally
established, and with signatures and votes certified by Maduro,
Diosdado and their Electoral Power. It is easier to bat than it is to
change what needs to be changed if things do not go as planned in
Barbados.
On
August 9, the digital media published "The spokesman of the
Alliance for the Consultative Referendum, Enrique Ochoa Antich,
accepted Diosdado Cabello's invitation to converse" (see in
Spanish "The spokesman of the Alliance for the Consultative
Referendum, Enrique Ochoa Antich, accepted Diosdado Cabello's
invitation to converse"
http://www.noticierodigital.com/2019/08/ochoa-antich-acepta-invitacion-diosdado-cabello-conversar/)
and then the messages sent between them and Diosdado Cabello:
"@dcabellor stated in his program @ConElMazoDando that he is
willing to talk to me (then he also mentioned *@claudioefermin*) in
the Plaza Bolívar and then in the Casa Amarilla. Accepted the
invitation".
Could
it be that they think we are so stupid that we think this wasn't
fixed between them from the beginning? That this operation that began
in UCV's Room C in July wasn't an initiative of the regime using the
parapet of those who made it a comparsa in the elections of May 20,
2018? Please! It is in fact the execution of the alternative plan to
pass the steamroller to the National Assembly.
In
fact, the improper use of the Consultative Referendum by the regime,
using the electoral means it controls, has already begun. Very soon
the "millions" of signatures will appear to initiate a
Consultative Referendum to call early elections of the National
Assembly, violating the Constitution, and later the millions of votes
with the Smartmatic machines to call that early election.
This
is not the first time that the regime has moved forward using an
instrument proposed by the National Original Constituent Alliance
(ANCO). They did so for the first time on May 1, 2017, when they
convened a National Constituent Assembly without the authorization of
the Venezuelan people, after repeatedly recommending to the official
opposition that they initiate that constituent convocation with the
qualified majority that they had since the installation of the
opposition Parliament on January 5, 2016.
The
regime once again advances us with a fraudulent call for popular
sovereignty with a consultation, after we presented to the official
opposition and to the country the call for that same sovereignty for
the complete fulfillment of the "cessation of usurpation",
through a Plebiscite without the CNE. Until when was so much myopia
and opposition stupidity? The time has come to act with initiative.
Let us call NOW for that Sovereignty, but in favor of the people...
Caracas,
August 14, 2019
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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