Luis Manuel
Aguana
Perhaps Moisés
Naim was not imagined when he published his book “Illicit” in 2005, when he
considered the unequal struggle of governments against the global criminal
networks, that these could be ... ¡the same government! Drug trafficking,
terrorism, money laundering, and many illicit things raised in that book but
now ruling a country. That completely changes the perspective of how the world
can fight that. I think Naim should consider publishing an updated version of
that fascinating book under the light of the current Venezuelan reality.
More than a
year ago, in an interview conducted by Naim to the so-called "Iron
Prosecutor", Bonnie Klapper, the former official gave an anecdotic
interview with a Colombian drug trafficker: “BK:
... I asked him how he carried drugs from the port of Caracas, or from Caracas
to the place where they would be transported to other countries, and to whom
they had to pay him. The dealer looked at me and said: Doctor, I do not
understand the question. I told him, you had to pay the police not to seize the
merchandise, and he said: no doctor, you do not understand. We paid the police
and they carried the drug. When we had large shipments we would advise the port
narcotics police so they could get the goods out of the port in the police
cars. NM: What you are telling us is that in Venezuela the Armed Forces, the
National Guard, the police and the political police system, etc., are not
controlled by the drug traffickers, they are the narcotraffickers! BK: They are
the drug traffickers. I have heard that Venezuela is a narco State. There are many wonderful people
in Venezuela, the vast majority, but if you look at the police system, the
Army, without them the business would not exist. They take bribes and transport
the drug ... “ (see Moisés Naim interview with Bonnie Klapper, https://youtu.be/Kd0PYJepM2c - Case of
Venezuela min 18:05). And according to what is coming out to the public, they
have done something more than that.
In other
words, international drug cartels do not move in Venezuela as in any other
country. They stay outside. They negotiate with the government, not as
criminals who buy officials as elsewhere, but as equals. The implications of
that are endless for any criminal network that can put their hands to a
position of power. It is not that there are officials bought for the crime,
they are the owners of the business and they also manage the power. From the
laundering of capital through our main industry to the issuance of public
bonds. This is a new phenomenon on a global scale and the trigger of a series
of mechanisms that will affect our country in the short term.
But those
networks need to have a mask to govern. That parapet is provided by the cover
of ideological "socialism", and now through the constitutional change
provided by a constituent fraud, which for them means perpetuation in power.
The Constitution of 1999 no longer serves to support them, although it served
them enough. Now they need another type of system that will screw them into the
power to strengthen the positions already acquired, and that can only be done
with a Constituent Assembly. All this under the noses of all the governments of
the planet and the country's own opposition, which, out of stupidity or
interest, never wanted to see this phenomenon as what it really is.
Unfortunately the cancer has advanced enough to have neutralized all vestiges
of being able to get out of the problem with its own antibodies, despite the
many warnings.
The current
situation in Venezuela has already escaped our borders and its solutions, as
well as the serious problem it represents, are now being elucidated outside our
country, putting the entire continent on alert.
The United
States government mounted a Latin American tour, led by Vice President Mike
Pence, to exchange views with the different governments visited about the
Venezuelan crisis. As far as I remember this is a completely unusual event in
Latin America after Cuba threatened world peace by trying to install nuclear
rockets a few kilometers from the North American territory. Maduro is already
able to wake up the sleeping giant, as expressed by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is already a fact that the Americans
consider the regime of Nicolás Maduro as a threat to their national security
and Latin American security.
In a very
recent interview conducted by "El Citizen" Leopoldo Castillo in
Miami, journalist Casto Ocando, specialized in American intelligence issues,
very informed about the US-Venezuela situation indicated: “... Venezuela has the record at the moment of the worst cases of money
laundering in the world, in history. There is a center that analyzes all cases
of money laundering in the world that is in Switzerland, and by far Venezuela
is the one that has the most cases of money laundering. And this is a real
threat because we are talking about networks where drug money can enter for
terrorism, that is to say that this has repercussions of global reach ... For
the first time, drug cartels control the government, control the Army, control
the institutions . And you may imagine what it means Pablo Escobar would have
done if he had control of PDVSA or the Central Bank of Venezuela, and for much
less the United States pursued Pablo Escobar relentlessly. In Venezuela we have
a drug trafficking operation that is possibly 10 times worse than that of Pablo
Escobar. In the (US government) agencies one of the decisions that is being
taken is whether to designate Venezuela or Venezuelan organizations, PDVSA or
possibly the Central Bank as criminal organizations ...” (US and Venezuelan
Relations - The Citizen 20-08-2017 Mon 02, 3:40 min, at https://youtu.be/C-Hcaw9SrCQ ).
¿Do you
realize the seriousness? ¿Do you see what we are talking about here? Here we
are not talking about whether Venezuelans are in a hyperinflationary
dictatorship, we are in hungry or if the National Guard is killing our boys who
protest in the streets, or if children and the elderly die in Venezuelan hospitals
for lack of medicines. No sir. It is that according to the perspective of the
first military power of the planet, our country has made it a serious risk to
hemispheric security.
The mere
fact of placing PDVSA or the Central Bank of Venezuela in the OFAC list means
that the country will not have a penny for the sale of crude oil. It is not
even necessary that our clients in the United States stop for any cause of
buying oil, is that we could not mobilize even a dollar from our accounts in
any bank in the world. According to recent reports, Cuba is negotiating with
Mexico an oil agreement, with lines of credit included, to get off the
Venezuelan ship. You just have to figure out where the pressure is coming from
(see the same El Citizen interview).
This agrees
perfectly with a phrase coined by Dr. Diego Arria in a recent interview in
Miami in the “Oswaldo Comenta” show: "Venezuela is a narco militarized
tyranny that just mounted the fundamental drug cartel which is the Constituent”
(Oswaldo Comenta: Interview with Diego Arria, 20-08-2017, Part 2 - https://youtu.be/AEW0NGfaNO0, min 7:44)
(I recommend seeing the complete program in (Part 1 - https://youtu.be/kPtjp3c0OAY, Part 3 - https://youtu.be/bAgebaiTqzo, Part 4 - https://youtu.be/UYircpy77V0, and Part
5 - https://youtu.be/DLefmLi2KU0).
This
serious affirmation confirms the conclusions reached by the international
community when a Constituent Assembly is established in an unconstitutional and
fraudulent manner, without the convocation of the people, which consolidates
that fundamental drug cartel that Diego Arria points out, and now observed
throughout the continent. Now the information that comes from everywhere
indicates that a direct intervention or much more serious sanctions are being
seriously considered than we have seen so far in our country. This is confirmed
by the journalist Casto Ocando himself, affirming what the international
community is already perceiving: “In
Venezuela there is a criminal organization in charge, rather than a
legitimately elected government ...” (see Interview with @cocando -El
Citizen 20 -08-2017 Seg 03, at https://youtu.be/4vLhqMdQxLQ).
This makes the Venezuelan situation unsustainable.
As the
Venezuelan problem has become a global problem due to the same circumstance of
its international criminal origin, the solutions will also be global. The
serious problems of the venezuelans are thus converted into a mere consequence
of a global problem. The venezuelan short-sighted opposition can celebrate all
the elections they wants with the regime; and that fact that is now transparent
- and even irrelevant - will extend and aggravate the situation, not only from
the perspective of the internal solution of our serious problems, but even
worse, from the perspective of the security of the continent. And those
problems, my dear friends, have already escaped from our hands - you will know
who to blame -, remaining at most for us only to understand them without
pretending to be an obstacle. These problems are now in the hands of forces far
beyond us. What I am sure is that anything that happens in Venezuela will alter
the perception of the free world about the fragility of freedom and what will
have to be done from now on to preserve it in an increasingly insecure world
...
Caracas,
August 22, 2017
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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