By Luis Manuel Aguana
No, it's not the movie starring George
Clooney and Julia Roberts, where in an impressive plot they take away from a
casino in Vegas all the million of the safe and escape through the front door.
It is the ingenious scam that the regime armed us all Venezuelans with the
participation of the official opposition with the elections of Governors. The
regime knew as much as you and I did, that the main parties would not hesitate
for a second to abandon not only the streets, but what was necessary to put
their hands on a government in order to seek oxygen to their arks empty of
power and contracts, after so much desert with this regime that does not give
stitch without thimble.
In fact, Maduro was reaching a break point
and the way they found to get rid of the MUD, which without having proposed it
had put their stability in check with our play of 16J (and I say ours because
it was civil society ), was to give them the candy that they had requested and
had not been granted: the elections of Governors.
But let's explain it better, why a scam?
Because what has happened here has been a cheat to all Venezuelans. That the
abandonment of the streets and the turnout to those elections was a great
political agreement previously negotiated between the regime and its
opposition. Why do I come to that conclusion now and not before? For the
untimely but revealing accusations of the illegitimate Nicolás Maduro to the
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in reference to the referendum of
Catalonia:"From Venezuela we ask for
respect to the people of Catalonia (...) Who acts as dictator? Maduro who allowed
an illegal consultation (oppositional plebiscite), protected and gave it ample
freedoms? O Mariano Rajoy who does not want the people of Catalonia to say
their word" (see Maduro calls Rajoy "dictator" for not
allowing Catalan consultation, in http://www.hispantv.com/noticias/venezuela/353798/maduro-rajoy-dictador-referendum-independencia-cataluna).
I
already found it very strange that the regime had “allowed” us to carry out this consultation
free of charge and “democratically” without the CNE, when in reality it thought that it
was illegal, as it now says to Rajoy and the whole world. Don't you find that
hard to swallow?
The question we must ask ourselves then is
this: do you think that the official opposition could have organised the 16J
consultation without the CNE, without the agreement of the regime, given that
it has always considered it illegal, as it confesses now? Think. Obviously not.
They would have prevented it with the same violence they have always shown,
especially after April 1st. And now they are making political gains by saying
that they "allowed" our perfectly constitutional Popular
Consultation.
Pero, ¿cuánto le costó eso a la ciudadanía?
El primer pago fue que el resultado fuera desconocido por los convocantes, la
Asamblea Nacional. Y el segundo pago fue más grave aún, que se aceptara ir a un
dialogo posterior a espaldas de la población.
Result: a win-win deal
for the government and its opposition, but with us as losers. The opposition
wins its governors' elections with the promise of attending a dialogue in the
Dominican Republic, and the government gains a paralysis of street pressure,
buying time and international image. Better impossible, only to the ribs of our
boys' blood. They call it “realpolitik”.
However,
what both parties did not foresee was the massive civic and democratic response
of the population, to the extent that this consultation mobilized the entire
international community in favor of the situation in Venezuela. The 16J will
take us down a completely different opposition route from the one seen so far,
and will change the paradigm on which the opposition has been understood so
far. There is no harm in not coming for the sake of good, the popular saying
says.
The bizarre
behaviour of the official opposition in ignoring the 16J mandate can only be
understood within the framework of a broad secret agreement that implied that
the opposition parties withdrew their militancy from the streets without any
consideration other than the promise of Tiby-CNE's electoral schedule,
forgetting the political prisoners and other demands made since the beginning
of the day of struggles in the streets. This represents a big scam to the Venezuelan
people.
We are then
in a very special situation with several concurrent elements: a) a disappointed
and annoying opposition population, hoping that this self-imposed delay by
elections that do not resolve the exit of the regime, nor the distressing
economic situation of Venezuelans will end; b) an official opposition immersed
in a kind of strange campaign where they can offer nothing more after the 15-O
than to continue doing the same thing that they have done.
What will
the MUD tell us after 15-O? Regardless of the result (which is another
analysis) I already hear Julio Borges and Henry Ramos Allup tell the following electoral
tale of cowboys: we must prepare for the elections of Mayors and President in
2018. And the institutional destruction that is being carried out and continues
to be carried out by the fraudulent Constituent Assembly? And hyperinflation?
And hunger? And the dead children in hospitals every day? Where's all that
stuff? That is the agenda that people want to hear. But that is not the agenda
of that opposition leadership. Then we have to look for someone else who will
confront the regime, and not negotiate elections with it by scamming the
population.
We urgently
require new voices to tell us clearly what is the exit route for this tragedy
that represents Nicolás Maduro and his militarized narco tyranny. Other people
who understand that the problem is not that the people vote or not vote, facing
the Venezuelans with that bullshit that is not at all the discussion of the
country, even if they want to locate it there, but show us a way that leads
immediately to solve this crisis And waiting for 2018 is not an option. Then
neither Borges nor Ramos will get it. These characters only understand
agreements and negotiations behind what the population wants, in favor of their
own agendas of power. Enough of scammers ...
Caracas, October 5, 2017
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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