By Luis Manuel Aguana
When the inevitability of the death
of President Hugo Chávez Frías was already untenable to public opinion, I wrote
a very respectful note entitled "President, die in peace" (see in Spanish
at http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2011/10/presidente-muera-en-paz.html). Without detailing the matter, in short, I asked him
to settle his affairs on earth before leaving, because God had imposed a
penalty on him that would resolve, if not everything, at least in large part,
the disaster that had caused us all Venezuelans.
This time I want to do something
similar but with the regime of Nicolás Maduro: to settle his affairs before
leaving. The regime is already showing
unequivocal signs of proximity to death, which become evident when they apply
the penalty of exile to people considered their political enemies, in clear
violation of the provisions of our Constitution in its Article 50:"...No
act of the Public Power may establish the penalty of estrangement from the
national territory against Venezuelans".
What part of "No act of public
power" did the regime not understand by exiling Vilca Fernández to
Peru? Undoubtedly, with these actions, the regime shows that it is aware of the
nearness of death and the irreversibility of the results -Tiby Lucena dixit- of all this disaster they have
caused in Venezuela.
However, as Chavez was when I wrote
that note in 2011, the government still clings to one last breath and kicks,
like El Galactico in his time, against the Constitution, forcing Venezuelans to
change prison for exile, as it did in the worst moments of our past
dictatorships. If anyone inside or outside Venezuela doubted that this
"government" in Nicolás Maduro's Venezuela was a dictatorship, they
were already convinced of that irrefutable fact. And that is not tolerable on
this continent in the 21st century.
Consequently, the MUD/Frente-Amplio
should already be changing their electoral discourse and soaking their fences
because everyone here, whether we like it or not, has a number. But faithful to
their collaborationist tradition, it seems that they are already preparing to
support the regime in the next elections for city councillors announced by the
CNE in December, despite the fact that no dictatorship agrees to take part in
an electoral contest if they do not count the votes themselves and start to
win, as happened on March 20. If they insist on that, they will be giving
Maduro and his electoral "triumph" a boost and recognition, denying
the ruling of the legitimate Supreme Court, which declared the current
Venezuelan electoral system null and void (see the ruling of the Electoral
Chamber of the Supreme Court of Venezuela in
https://tinyurl.com/y77abfxy). According to it, no more automated voting
elections can be held in Venezuela.
But let's go back to the
inevitability of the end, and what they should be doing in the regime to go in
peace as suggested to Chavez before his death and which in this case translates
into the regime leaving "with as little trauma as possible" for
everyone, including them. And I am not referring precisely to the thesis of
Maduro Quits! which is the thesis of the anti-MUD opponents, and which does not
necessarily imply that he leaves voluntarily and in peace.
Assuming as obvious that the regime
does not want to leave, usurping the government of the country, provoking the
greatest discomfort and rejection that has occurred in history, committing acts
and crimes of all kinds punishable by international justice, and the fences
closing more and more around its neck, what would a criminal do to avoid
escaping from this hostage situation in which they themselves have been
involved, submitting to the Venezuelans?
Little by little testaferros and
relatives of the main heads of the regime are being expelled from many
countries of the world, and they are besieged in Venezuela. They cannot leave
without being captured by the international police and sent to the United
States on criminal charges.
If you were in that situation, what
would you do? Perhaps the most logical thing to do would be to negotiate to see
how he gets rid of justice like any criminal who breaks into a bank and
threatens to kill the hostages, but is surrounded outside by the police.
There's nowhere to run. As they gradually cut off their foreign survival
routes, what remains for them is to take refuge in the country with the
ever-increasing risk of ending up like Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci, in
Milan's Loreto Square, at the hands of those who were their victims, while they
tried desperately to flee the situation. I imagine that must be the recurring nightmare of many of them.
But why get to that? Why not leave
in peace as I suggested to Chavez in 2011? It is clear that after having
committed a fraud of the magnitudes of 20M, Maduro and his regime will not dawn
one day saying "I'm leaving." There should be a succession of
previous steps that lead concertedly to an end with as little trauma as
possible. Our suggestion: a Popular Consultation. Paradoxically, a Popular
Consultation is an exit that suits everyone equally. Why? Because it would obey
the popular mandate that comes from it. The terms will be those that the
sovereign decides but with the votes counted by the civil society -without the
CNE-, with the observation of the international community.
If the regime allows this
consultation in the knowledge that they will lose it, they will leave through
the front door, and if in this consultation a call to the Original Constituent
is foreseen, as our proposal was made (see "Why ANCO proposes a new
National Consultation", in Spanish at http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2018/06/comunicado-porque-anco-propone-una.html), then the population that still accompanies the
regime would have its proportional representation according to the followers
that still have. There should be no hostage-rescue violence (if such a thing is
proposed), nor should there be social implosion with hordes seeking revenge (in
my opinion in some justified cases) on those who have ruined and massacred this
population of hunger and disease. And best of all, the National Emergency
Government chosen would come out of a popular decision to authorize the
Original Constituent to appoint them. It's not about rocket science, it's just
pure common sense.
If this message reaches someone in
the regime who can't sleep thinking they should "die for the
revolution", they don't have to. If he has not committed crimes, it can
continue to fight democratically in a legitimate National Constituent Assembly,
if the people give him their representation in constituent elections validated
by the whole world. It could also do so later in a democratic Congress
resulting from a new constitution. Furthermore, I believe that many people
would agree with this solution and would accept it, including the military.
But it is clear that there must also
be justice. This Legitimate National Constituent Assembly should, without
witch-hunts, designate a Special Court to establish responsibilities for all
the crimes committed during this long period, from the misappropriation and theft
of resources from the Nation to the crimes and violations of human rights of
Venezuelans.
Could this proposal be possible? It
is as possible as it was when I asked Hugo Chavez to make amends for his
mistakes before he died. He didn't and I don't think he's having a great time
wherever he is. The Creator must be treating him in the same way he treated the
Venezuelans, which is why he must be very sorry that he did not follow my
suggestion.
Now my
recommendation to a dying regime is to propose to them the same thing I
suggested to the Galactic in his opportunity: that they die in peace. That is,
they should resolve before leaving if they want to save themselves, not only by
agreeing to consult the Venezuelan people in the proposed terms, but also by
obeying the popular verdict, whatever it may be. In other words, let
the Venezuelan people decide! This will not only allow them as a
political group to "die in peace" (in a figurative way, of course) as
Hugo Chávez declined to do at the time, but also to remain in the political
game of the Venezuela to come. They are still in time to do better than their
Commander, saving themselves from the designs of Divine Justice, leaving in
peace...
Caracas,
June 18, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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