By Luis Manuel Aguana
The election results of last Sunday, October 15 corroborate that who plays
in an arranged roulette always loses. The painful thing about this is not that
the official opposition has fueled the hope of Venezuelans indicating that if
"with this CNE" we won 6D-2015, why we were not going to win now, but
after the barbarity of the July 30 fraud where 8.1 million votes that no one
saw in the polling stations, recognized by the entire international community and
by the same Smartmatic, who in their right mind was not going to think that the
CNE arranged roulette put the result as it pleased 15-O.
I will not go in here to analyze how they did it. I have done it countless
times, but if you wish you can review my paper in the Pío Tamayo Chair of the
UCV of October 21, 2013, 4 years ago! “La perversión del sistema
electoral automatizado y sus consecuencias políticas” in http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2015/08/la-perversion-del-sistema-electoral.html.
Maybe I can
give you some insight into what happened on 15-O, where the regime changes the
results at will because it has the little machines to do it.
What I want to do now is not a declaration of "we told them", it
would be disrespectful to the millions of people who, trusting in their
political leadership, believed that they would have an outcome in line with
what is really happening in the country: that we reject them majority. But what
ended up doing Venezuela was to confirm that if there are those 8.1 million who
voted for that unconstitutional constituent of the regime, because now they
appear together people and votes with a result official. My frustration and
annoyance now has no limits and that I did not vote. I cannot imagine the one
who did it with a lot of sacrifice to see the cheesy and proven traps of the
CNE in this election ...
My grandmother used to say that people don't learn in other people's
heads. I have never campaigned for abstention. I only said that abstention in
dictatorship is civic protest. And I'm in civic protest in the electoral field
since 2013 (see Porque no les daré mi voto, en http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2013/11/porque-no-les-dare-mi-voto.html) where I stated publicly that I would not continue to cohabitate with
that system until there is a change in the electoral system in Venezuela and
our vote really reflects the will of the voters. And it still doesn't reflect
that, as the 15-O was actually demonstrated and Venezuelans must recognize that
now.
I ended that note by indicating that
abstentionism only exists in democracy. In dictatorship
what must exist is civic protest expressed in Nonviolent Struggle.
And I still think so, and now more than ever since we characterized what
happens in Venezuela as a dictatorship, declaring that we are assuming Article
350 of the Constitution from the National Assembly itself. What strikes me is
that having done that, we Venezuelans would all go out to corroborate and
legitimize that completely illegal Electoral Power. It is high time we started
to be consistent with what we say and then do.
Some of you may be thinking, “Well, this guy
says this because we lost and he's happy about it”. My answer to that would be
that we didn't lose, and I'm not happy with those results. We did not lose
because there is still a peaceful belief in our population that we can resolve
our differences with the most important act of democracy, which is voting. But
that vote must and must be in conditions where it is guaranteed
that what we vote counts and that is not happening, even though the official
opposition will tell us the tale of cowboys that as “we have witnesses” we can
win, or because the theory of the “avalanche of votes” works. Get out of that
cloud with these communists who have an infallible system to win always.
I am not happy with what is happening either,
quite the opposite. I feel like I've been saying the same thing for years to a
wall that can't hear. The problem is not whether we vote or not. The problem is
that we first have to solve the fundamental problem of replacing the regime and
then go on to solve everything else, including the electoral thing that is
completely flawed, from the Electoral Registry to the system of counting votes.
And it is a complete contradiction - not to mention stupid - to try to solve
the former when the latter is still cheated.
You'll tell me, but how do we get these people
out without votes? Ahhhhh, good question. If you have declared that we are in a
dictatorship, then we have to act seriously accordingly and revise the
international formulas to deal with that. Let's start with Gene Sharp or any
other author of Nonviolent Struggle. Let us wage a struggle that is coherent
with the discourse. Let us not accompany the regime no matter how much the
opposition leadership insists that they have tanks and guns and we do not. Let
us make a struggle in each State, each Municipality, each Parish but assuming
the correct and coherent attitude.
In the National Constituent Alliance, we
proposed before the Maduro’s Constituent Assembly that we convene a National
Constituent Assembly on the initiative of the people, gathering the 15%
established in Article 348, outside of all Constituent Power, especially the
electoral one, assuming as we did the constitutional disobedience. We were not
heard because we were always put ahead of “the electoral way”. Well, now we are
changing the strategy and soon we will offer a similar route, but that means
that we will use what has been achieved so far in the opposition institutions,
but that will require a lot of courage and awareness on the part of those of us
who elect as Deputies in 2015, that we will not know if it will exist until the
circumstances present themselves, and if they are really in the game of
removing the regime, and not of living with it.
I think that from now on the country has gained
a lot of awareness of what we had before 15-O. It's a hard lesson we all have
to learn. Opposing political leadership must and must change after this
"defeat". And I put it in quotation marks because the regime won
again with a trap, it did not defeat the opposition Venezuela. But we'll be
assholes if we keep playing with that casino run by the CNE madamas without
fixing things before another election. Consequently, the approach to the fight
must change and so must the conductors...
Caracas, October 16, 2017
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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