By Luis Manuel Aguana
You will say that it is not very elegant to be constantly
referencing me, quoting things that I have already written in relation to the
issues that concern us, nor to be saying "I told you so" when
something happens to us, but I believe that in our case it is necessary by
virtue of the extraordinary capacity that we Venezuelans have to forget things.
Four years ago I was wondering why the Venezuelan case had not reached the
United Nations Security Council, and there were mechanisms for civil society to
express itself in that world forum, even more so when those procedures had been
the creation of a Venezuelan (see in
Spanish La Formula Arria o cuando en la casa del herrero los
cuchillos son de palo, at http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2014/03/la-formula-arria-o-cuando-en-la-casa.html) .
But while the world continues to turn, the Venezuelan
political opposition looks at its navel. The Venezuelan case deepened its
deterioration and without Venezuelan opposition intervention in the right
instances, the problem escalated to the point of extreme gravity that we know
today. And it had to be on the initiative of the United States in its rotating
presidency of the Security Council, which will discuss - finally! - the gravity
of the Venezuelan crisis in the context of the so-called Formula Arria at the
United Nations next Monday, September 10, 2018 (see memorandum “Arria-Formula Meeting of Security Council:
Venezuela as case Study of Corruption, Peace, and Security”, at
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6yI0gUROWzDXzUxUUpqX0JORGVNUmdNdmRVbTJjalZYV0lz/view?usp=sharing).
The
memorandum states that under Formula Arria the corruption of Nicolás Maduro's
regime and its involvement in illicit activities such as drug trafficking will
be discussed, affecting the security of the Western Hemisphere: “As long as this predation continues,
Venezuela will remain at risk for further violence and will continue
undermining the stability of the region as millions of its people flee the
crisis within its borders”.
According
to the protocol of the Formula Arria meetings, participants from civil society,
Member States and the press will listen to the speeches of the speakers on the
subject followed by the speeches of members of the Security Council. It is and
at the same time is not a formal meeting of the Security Council. The keynote
speakers will be Mercedes de Freitas, Executive Director of Transparency
Venezuela, and Marshall Billingslea, Assistant Secretary for Terrorist
Financing, U.S. Department of the Treasury.
By listening to the well-founded interventions of
organizations and personalities that have to do with the problem, the Security
Council will then have a very precise perspective of the situation in order to
make decisions. We await Dr. Diego Arria's intervention there. Diego Arria,
former President of the United Nations Security Council, as one of the best
acknowledged experts on the Venezuelan situation, and creator of the Formula
that bears his name, who, because of his double condition of being a
distinguished Venezuelan and a profound connoisseur of those diplomatic
channels, for having handled similar situations in other countries within that
same Security Council, will be constituted at that moment and in favour of its
own country, as the best and most qualified representative to expose our
tragedy before that important instance, so that the countries with the greatest
power in the world can make a decision about what to do with Venezuela. If
anyone can express to the world's powers the magnitude of our crisis and its
implications for the security of the continent, it is Ambassador and State
Secretary Diego Arria.
From there, decisions will be made without us. At that
Formula Arria meeting, we will hear about the need to act as soon as possible
to avoid greater evils to the region, but we Venezuelans will not be in the
final decision. However, we could be, not in the decisions of the Security
Council, but as main actors in the decision that is finally taken, in the form
of a Government that officially and constitutionally represents Venezuelans in
exile. However, that Government does not exist because those who have the
responsibility for its materialization simply left that decision by omission in
the hands of the circumstances, indirectly allowing Venezuela to deepen into a
security risk for the world by continuing to tolerate criminals running the
country.
For the world does not function at the speed of the
decisions of Venezuelans. The decisions regarding our problem and the problem
we are causing in the hemisphere will be made by others with or without us. On
the one hand the party leaders in the National Assembly believe that the world
will stop them from doing their opposition primaries next year to
"elect" who will lead the official opposition of the MUD/Frente
Amplio, while the TSJ in exile remains paralyzed defending itself from the
inclement attacks from all over the world, because Capriles appeared on a list
of corrupt in Maduro's sentence. Impossible greater imbecility.
And I ask myself: will the pot of opposition corruption be
so big that everyone has undertaken it against the legitimate Supreme Court of
Justice and not even a decision is made in favor of the poor people of
Venezuela? Will it be possible that behind these attacks on the legitimate
Supreme Court of Justice hide the panic that those who cover up Maduro's regime
from the official opposition are discovered, and the ball of that thread is
that investigation that the legitimate Supreme Court of Justice orders to the
Public Ministry for Henrique Capriles, in Maduro's sentence? That is the sad reality of Venezuelans while
we all die of hunger when we are unable to buy the food and medicine we need
for a murderous hyperinflation that scales minute by minute, with a regime that
does not stop at the destruction of the country.
Hence,
whether or not there is a National Emergency Government in exile will soon
cease to be a difference as events unfold outside our control and at an unusual
speed, without the intervention of anyone who can be called from the
International Community at the moment of truth, to represent the legitimate
interests of Venezuelans. Unless there are Venezuelans who represent us
constitutionally outside the country, and who can get their hands on all that
which will be unleashed in the coming weeks to bring order to the disaster
being caused by the regime of Nicolás Maduro and his sopotocientos thieves in
the Latin American region, decisions will be taken without us by those
gentlemen sitting in the United Nations Security Council and the rest of the
international community suffering from our problem. So, may God hold us confessed
and protect this Land of Grace...
Caracas,
September 8, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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