By Luis Manuel Aguana
It is clear that none of the
regime's military and commercial partners agree with any intervention in
Venezuela. The Chinese and the Russians -mainly- like things as they are and
they want them to stay that way. It is not to those countries that Venezuelans
are migrating en masse as a result of the humanitarian disaster caused by their
partners in the regime. That's why those countries could not defend the human
rights of Venezuelans when their interests are at stake.
However, to justify that foreigners
could not get into Venezuela like "...an elephant in a junkyard without
understanding what's really going on," Russian President Vladimir
Putin said in a recent forum that “Venezuelans and no one else in the world
should decide about Maduro's future” (see in Spanish, El Nuevo Herald,
Putin advierte contra la injerencia extranjera en Venezuela, en https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/mundo/america-latina/venezuela-es/article219424880.html). Sometimes rulers, especially those with influence,
should weigh a little more what they say. I don't think those statements by the
Russian President were to the liking of the Maduro regime. If we Venezuelans
had a real chance to decide what to do with Nicolás Maduro, there would no
longer be a crisis in Venezuela.
Indeed, President Vladimir Putin is
right. We Venezuelans should be able to decide what to do, not just with
Maduro, but with the fate of all those who have destroyed Venezuela, and also
decide on the future of the country. Not the Cubans, the Iranians, the
Russians, the Byelorussians, the Chinese, and the whole pleiad of countries
that control in one way or another, directly or indirectly, the puppet
government of Nicolas Maduro.
But since the disastrous situation
in which this government has derived has brought as a consequence an
international repercussion that affects, like cancer in regional expansion to
the rest of the surrounding countries, it is proposed that they then decide for
us what to do with Venezuela, thus escaping the problem from our hands. If we
cannot decide, then others will have to do it for us.
But Vladimir Putin, when saying
something true, knowing that it is impossible for us to decide because we are
kidnapped by criminals, believes that he can manipulate logic and argue against
an intervention because it is we, the kidnapped, who must decide, when in
reality what he inadvertently does is admit an old postulate that has not been
recognized in our own country: the solution is in the hands of the
sovereign people. So what we have to achieve is to make it possible
for the people to express themselves. And the opposition neurons should be
concerned with thinking how to crystallize that expression over the electoral
and personalist projects of each fraction, using the deterrence mechanisms that
the International Community has made available to seek solutions to the
Venezuelan situation.
How did President Lenín Moreno of
Ecuador get rid of Rafael Correa's continuing pretension? Consulting the
Ecuadorian people. You will say, "Of course, but Moreno was President when
he mounted that solution. He was in power" and that is not the case here.
Well, the problem is more challenging. If those in power only want to consult
the people and make elections only with a corrupt electoral institution like
the CNE, whose results cannot be audited, then we must escalate the situation
to the next highest level.
The question, then, would be how to
get Venezuelans inside and outside Venezuela to express themselves freely over
the regime of Nicolás Maduro and his associates? Answer: by making that demand
be assumed by the International Community as a formula to solve the problem,
using all the necessary pressure mechanisms such as those that have been used
so far and new ones, to force Maduro's regime to produce a consultation of
Venezuelans inside and outside Venezuela with all the support and the presence
and technical, logistical and financial supervision of the countries that have
had the will to extend their hand to us. It would be more than a 16J-2017 but
with several orders of magnitude worldwide. That consultation would be the
answer to those countries that support the regime and veto humanitarian actions
in the UN Security Council, such as China and Russia, and we would silence
Vladimir Putin with his own solution.
And many will say "but Maduro
and his government are not going to accept that because it would take them out
of power" Precisely! That consultation would become the International
Community's main pressure mechanism to get the Venezuelan people to express
themselves in relation to Maduro's continuity and change the Venezuelan
political reality. And the best justification to proceed to any action in case
of ignoring the petition, but this time with the best excuse in the world: Maduro
blocks the Venezuelan people from expressing themselves in order to decide
their continuity as the President of Russia rightly says.
And just as Lenin Moreno in Ecuador
resolved the problem domestically by going to the people because he was in
power during the consultation he made, we Venezuelans can resolve it with the
help of the International Community by demanding from the regime that the will
of the people be expressed and if this is not yet permitted, then the countries
will have the Responsibility to Protect the Venezuelan people. If this were to
happen, it would materialize an authorization of the people for the
international forces to express themselves, if Maduro and his regime do not
allow the people to do so.
If there is
an Emergency Government in exile, as some of us still hope, that would be the
ideal interlocutor to coordinate what is going to happen. But if it does not
materialize in the same way, the suffering countries of the cancer in full
expansion that Venezuela suffers would solve it for us, only without any
control of the legitimate powers that we still have left. That is why this
figure is necessary, even though politically there are forces that play in
favor of killing this initiative. They forget that Venezuela has an inedited
problem, so equally inedited should be its solution...
Caracas,
October 7, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario