By Luis Manuel Aguana
What is really serious about the recent case of corruption that the
press has called "El Cucutazo" is not so much that it originated from
the official opposition - which is already scandalous enough coming from those
who pretend to be government - but from those who were the object of the
robbery. It is as if we find someone to put their hands to the alms of the
Church: it is not so much what you steal but who you steal it from.
What is scandalous in this case of corruption is that they discovered
those who want to administer the nation's money arguing that
castro-chavismo-madurismo is a thief, in a shoplifting operation, hiding the
money destined for humanitarian aid. This has a much deeper bottom than simple
thieves belonging to a political party.
Corruption linked to the exercise of power is not the monopoly of the
PSUV nor of the illegitimate government of Maduro, it is since time immemorial
of all the parties in Venezuela in a position to administer what is of the
Venezuelans. That is not the problem - which it is - but rather the problem of
the mechanisms in place to ensure that administrators do not steal public
money, as well as the establishment of a minimum of controls so that this does
not happen. Since the criminal cartel has seized power in Venezuela, the entire
minimum control structure has been dismantled to prevent corruption. But we
know that and that is one of the many reasons why we have to evict them from
power.
However, what has not been proven until now is that this custom of
dismantling control seems to be very convenient for those who want to succeed
Maduro in power. Since the National Assembly merged the Executive Power with
the Legislative Power through the Transition Law, nobody knows who controls
what of the Republic's resources that have been recovered from abroad, and that
have been retained in the different countries for the disposition of the
interim government of President Juan Guaidó.
The National Assembly, being by nature the controlling body of the
Executive, has not presented accounts or control mechanisms to preserve what
has been recovered, nor who is in charge of doing so. The mere fact that the
administrative disorder and the theft of funds for the humanitarian aid of
Venezuelans abroad by the interim government of Juan Guaidó have been reported
through a journalistic denunciation, gives an account of the existence of such
a big matter that we could infer that we only know from that the tip of the
iceberg, and that we Venezuelans have the full right to know. Otherwise there
would hardly be any difference in corruption between what there is and what is
intended to come.
But in my opinion, the problem goes beyond that. Unless we import
politicians or they are extraterrestrials, the raw material with which politics
is made in Venezuela is the same as that of the regime. If you put a magnifying
glass over the militancy of absolutely all the political parties, the regime
and its opposition, you will see the same political actors in our country, some
younger than others, who have used politics to favor themselves, because that
is what has finally happened. Without the need to cite names, we cannot justify
the goods and the international trips of an infinite number of people from the
opposition national politics who have taken advantage of the serious crisis we
are going through to improve their living conditions, without having resolved
anything for the Venezuelans, only maintaining the illusion that one day we
will get out of this. All of this leads us to suspect if they really want to do
it in order to continue living from "that" at the expense of our
suffering. And that is what is
truly aberrant.
All this leads us to a natural pessimism that indicates that we will
never be able to solve the problem posed by a regime and an opposition that
negotiates its permanence forever. That we will not regain democracy and
freedom because a bunch of corrupt want to make and share the spoils of the
Republic, leaving only a bit for the rest of us. Under these conditions it is
impossible to convince anyone who has any hope. But as I always say to my
friends: it takes much more than a corrupt to decline in my incorrigible
optimism.
In Venezuela, to a greater or lesser extent, political parties are clubs
of friends of their founder or founders, especially new ones. I will not point
out any in particular but the only thing they have offered to the country is
their charisma and sympathy and then mount on those attributes to request the
necessary political capital to access the real booty that is none other than administering
the Public Treasury of the Nation.
After they came to power, if they ruined the country, it doesn't matter.
The system is built to restart and put trust in another, in an endless vicious
circle. The last of them was Hugo Chavez in 1998 and recent political events
point to the Leopoldo Lopez-Juan Guaidó dupla. As you can see, this is an
unspeakable simplicity that marks the state of political underdevelopment of
our people. How to resolve that? Beginning by understanding the cycle and
correcting it, although it may already be too late to resolve the present.
What could we do then? Aim longer. Not to offer the country a
charismatic and messianic leadership but a new structure on which to cement the
Republic with a clear route that allows us to distribute power, putting it in
the hands of many. To offer a new conception that, even if it means using the
same defective raw material that has been used by all governments since 1811,
can guarantee Venezuelans a minimum of control over what belongs to everyone,
reducing the risk of handing over the country to an all-powerful messianic
leader who invariably ends up defrauding the entire world because it is
impossible to manage a modern state placed in the hands of a single human
being.
And that cannot be confronted with a "government program" as
the parties and Venezuelans are accustomed to, but rather by changing the
system of power relations between those who must exercise it, in order to
efficiently administer what belongs to all of us, guaranteeing well-being and
quality of life for citizens. A system that obliges to build citizenship,
correcting in the long term the defects of the political raw material. And it
is possible to do this with a system that has been exposed for years by the
founders of ANCO, and that we have struggled to make known, which bears the
name of Proyecto País Venezuela Reconciliada vía Constituyente (se in
Spanish, in http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/p/documentos-fundamentales.html).
It is obligatory to say it after 120 years: given the ruinous state in
which the country's political raw material is found from the ethical, moral and
political point of view, it requires the contest of "New men, new
procedures and new ideals", the successful slogan of the Restorative
Revolution of Cipriano Castro in 1899 that marked the entrance of the andines
to power, and that changed the system of relations to exercise that power for
more than a century, after years of political disorder since our separation
from Great Colombia. If history has to repeat itself to enter a different era,
I can't see a better time to try a different approach...
Caracas, June 18,
2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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