By Luis Manuel Aguana
It is
possible that what I am about to say may be misunderstood: I am not so
concerned about the fall of the regime as I am about what comes next. The
regime will fall sooner rather than later because it is unviable. But it will
not fall alone. It also threatens to bring down all the associated
collaborationism, to the point that in their attempt to defend the internal
corruption that they also have, as the Brazilian Attorney General's Office
pointed out with the statements of Odebrecht's manager in Venezuela, they
intend to destroy the only legitimate Power that in its short existence has
shown more signs of being with the Venezuelan people and fighting for the
return of the Rule of Law than any other we have had: the legitimate Supreme
Court of Justice in exile.
Hence the
statements and pronouncements against the legitimacy of the High Court in exile
of the Magistrates who have renounced the legitimate TSJ, considering,
according to the words of one of them, "...not to agree" on what he
considers "to be unenforceable decisions" (see statements in Spanish by
Alejandro Rebolledo, at http://www.noticierodigital.com/2018/09/alejandro-rebolledo-sigo-siendo-magistrado-no-del-tsj-exilio/).
A bad time
to realize that, even though the "unenforceable decisions" are more
an excuse for those who agreed to be sworn in at the OAS headquarters in
Washington as the Supreme Court of Justice and held that status outside the
country. Did they previously believe that the decisions of that Court would be
"enforceable"? These Magistrates did not participate or sign in the
historic judgments of the legitimate Supreme Court of Justice, such as the
Electoral System judgments of June 13, 2018, or the sentencing of Nicolás
Maduro on August 15, 2018. Were those Magistrates in disagreement with those
sentences? We don't know because they didn't even sign or save their vote in
any of them...The immediate question is to what or to whom do those
resignations respond? What is the reason why it is now and not before the
resigning Magistrates "discovered" that the sentences of the TSJ-L
were "unenforceable"? That is what we Venezuelans have to ask
ourselves, not if the TSJ-L is losing legitimacy as a result of the desertion
of these characters.
But Dr.
José Vicente Haro has already replied several times about the
"unenforceable sentences": "They
are as executable as the ballots for the release of political prisoners "
(see A release ballot for Venezuela, at http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/a-release-ballot-for-venezuela.html).
If they are not enforced,
they remain to be plasticized and publicly displayed in the necks of the
relatives of political prisoners. It is the Magistrates, the Venezuelans all,
those who live and do not live in Venezuela, invested or not with authority,
who have the constitutional responsibility (Article 333) to restore
constitutional order!
If that is the
excuse they give to scape from the responsibility that the people gave them
through the National Assembly, and if that is the maturity of the Magistrates
who decided to renounce the legitimate TSJ - by them or by someone's orders-,
welcome be those resignations. Venezuela requires Venezuelans -not even
Magistrates- to truly surrender to the struggle for the institutional rescue of
the country, as the Magistrates have shown that if they decided to rigorously
fulfill their obligation to perform the work for which they swore. And that, as
in that wedge of the credit card, is priceless. That is what the Magistrates
who are leaving the hair behind will never understand.
And that's
not easy. If these resigning Magistrates were not willing to do that from the
beginning then they should have stayed quietly in their professional
activities. But they apparently ran for office looking for personal figuration
in this waning hour of Venezuela. What a shame! And that is what has not yet
been understood. Those who assume responsibilities now have obligations of life
with the people of Venezuela. And if there is anyone who hasn't understood it
yet, that's not the individual we can count on to get Venezuela out of this
very serious hole where we are all. Personally, I think that they should not be
trusted in the future, nor should they be entrusted with the post of porter of
the Ministry, even if they have all the credentials of the planet, with the
forgiveness of the honorable porters.
But what is
really important is not that these Magistrates have left, in a vain attempt to
dismantle the legitimate Supreme Court, but what lies behind it. The delay in
the publication of the final and motivated sentence of Nicolás Maduro Moros for
own corruption and capital legitimation is at the center of this debate. There
are very important forces that operate by pressuring the High Court so that the
final document containing the details of the trial, as well as the order to
investigate all those mentioned by the Public Prosecutor's Office in the
accumulation of evidence provided by the Brazilian Attorney General's Office,
including Henrique Capriles, is delayed to such a point that the legitimate
Supreme Court is first dissolved before that sentence is published with that
order of investigation. This will be the size of the opposition corruption that
prefers that a black and white conviction of the delinquent Maduro not be sent,
in all languages and to all countries and police around the world, as long as a
case of corruption of his own is not ventilated, leaving a delinquent to
continue mounted in the First Magistrate's Office, ending up with Venezuela and
walking around the world offending the Venezuelan people.
This
attitude of the official opposition would prevent two important points that
would favor the forces that operate covertly for the regime and against the
TSJ-L: 1) that the TSJ legitimize the designation of a National Emergency
Government as we have requested several Venezuelans before that High Court in
different appeals, after the motivated publication of Maduro's sentence; and 2)
that the Odebrecht scandal be investigated, but this time on the side of the
official opposition.
They are
already in the preparatory phase to convince Venezuelans to go to an election
of city councillors for December and even worse, to lead Venezuelans to vote to
measure themselves -again- in a referendum approving a new Constitution,
product of the illegitimate Constituent Assembly of the regime.
Collaborationism working at full speed on two fronts: 1) abroad, in its
eagerness to jointly destroy the legitimate Supreme Court of Justice, which
would give benefits to both; and 2) the interior, through electoral continuity
with the negotiated imposition of a new Constitution on Venezuelans.
Venezuelans
must decide between continuing to believe in those who have allowed this
criminal regime to continue or supporting those who are struggling with their
nails abroad to give the dictatorship a definitive "stop". Yet the
guts of those eagerly awaiting power after Maduro are infinite. They are also
taking steps to avoid being left out in the event that the fall of the regime
is sudden. And what's coming could be worse if we don't deal with that now,
pushing for a decision to force legitimate and constitutional representation of
Venezuelans in exile, prior to events leading to the International Community
asserting the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle to the population of
those who are causing death and pain in Venezuela.
You don't
have to be a fortune-teller to know that the dinosaurs of traditional politics
are playing "hard ball" to avoid losing their power options in the
fall of the Maduro regime. It is indispensable that the legitimate TSJ survive
the attacks of the regime and its opposition. If the High Court in exile,
because of all the bastard interests of the official opposition as an undercover
agent of Maduro's regime, fails to publish to the world its definitive reasoned
sentence so that in the near future justice will be done, imprisoning Nicolás
Maduro Moros in Ramo Verde for 18 years and 3 months for corruption, We will
have lost all Venezuelans, not only those who have made a superhuman effort to
maintain a light of hope and a front of institutional struggle, but also the
possibility of being able to prosecute from exile a National Emergency
Government that will lead the least traumatic transition possible.
That is why
it is not convenient for those who have done a terrible damage to Venezuela
from the official opposition to have a truly independent Supreme Court of
Justice taking decisions without the directives of the heads of the parties
that manage the National Assembly. The next few days will be crucial for the
survival, not only of the legitimate TSJ in exile, but of a possibility, like
so many others we have had in the past and that we have wasted to get out of
the regime as soon as possible. Let's not allow that to happen again...
Caracas, September 29, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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