Por Luis Manuel Aguana
It is very
difficult to ignore what happened on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at the UCV and the
re-launch of the MUD two days later under another name. It is even more
difficult to believe that the two acts are unrelated, even if you want to deny
it. The political skill with which the old MUD moves to not die is creepy, to
say the least. First, to generate the opinion matrix of a civil society launch
from the hands of two fundamental pillars of Venezuela's credible conscience:
the Catholic Church and the Venezuelan University; and then, the re-launch of
the MUD in union with that same civil society that was expressed at the UCV two
days earlier, but renamed it as the Frente Amplio Venezuela Libre (Free
Venezuela Broad Front), to put the electoral exit back on the country's agenda.
It should
be noted that the manifestos of both acts insist on elections as a way out of
the Venezuelan problem: The UCV's proposal is "the free exercise of the right to vote, with an impartial arbitrator
and in accordance with the conditions and terms established by law, which
allows for voting to elect...", and that of the new Frente Amplio
Venezuela Libre:"We propose a broad
alliance that demands free and fair elections to change and reconcile...".
And in both cases to go to elections without resolving the issue of an
unconstitutional Constituent over all Public Powers. What did they do? First
they bathed themselves in legitimate civil society at the UCV and then publicly
and skillfully re-launched two days later. The rest was done by the media and
social networks.
And if we
read both manifestos in detail, we will discover between the lines the same
points that the MUD demanded of the regime before rushing to the Dominican
Republic to negotiate with Maduro: opening of the humanitarian channel,
liberation of political prisoners, recognition of the National Assembly and...
general elections. It's impressive how we Venezuelans fall again with these
mirror sellers.
I want to make
something clear: civil society can be called by anyone-even the MUD-, it can
even be self-convened, and certainly it is necessary to do so at this critical
time in the country. But from there to a manipulation of disguised factors of
the MUD to later use that act in the UCV for the refreshing of those that
persistently have led us to failure, trying to make "civil society
forget" the recent past, going "all together "To the rescue of
the country, it is asking too much. If we let that happen, then we let the dead
pass, we let go of the betrayal of the 16J, we let go the failure of those
factors that insist on a solution that aims to validate the Nicolas Maduro
regime through elections. That is unacceptable ..
But there
is something worse that comes out of all the manipulation of this new MUD+
"civil society" Front: that all those of us who do not agree with
this new mask are divisive, those who do not want a "unitary"
solution to the country's problems, the radicals, the bad guys in the movie
that need to be excluded, with an opinion matrix created with the MUD’s money.
The general perception is that we swim against the tide of an opinion matrix,
which would look "majority" because the "Catholic Church and
Universities" blessed in an act at the UCV a civil society that now works
"united" to this MUD, and that now washes its face calmly when it
took us to a precipice over the past year. Again, that is unacceptable.
But reality
is far from being the perception of this opinion matrix. The Venezuelan
Episcopal Conference-CEV is not Father Ugalde or the Rector Virtuoso, very
respectable persons, who have the right to support the MUD in its claim that
elections are the solution of the country or that Maduro comes out with votes.
Or even that the solution is "light chavismo" in power.
The
official position of the CEV is in writing since January 12,2018 in its Pastoral Exhortation "God Will Consolidate His
People" of January 12,2018 and the Communiqué of the CEV before the call for early presidential
elections: where they clearly stated:"5. - We must remember what the National Constitution says:"
Sovereignty resides untransferably in
the people.(Art. 5), therefore, it is the people who must assume
"their vocation to be social subjects with their capacities to carry out
initiatives, such as, for example, that civil society should carry out a
consultation to indicate the direction it wishes to take to the nation as
foreseen in our Magna Carta (cf. Art. 71)" (n. 6).). It is the people
themselves, and not a spurious instance that puts things in their right
place."
On the
other hand, neither can it be said that the official position of the university
rectors who conform the Association of University Rectors-AVERU agrees with the
electoral decision of the MUD (and now that of its new Front) tolerating the
Constituent of the regime. Many Rectors of very important universities have a
very different opinion, even if they respect the position of some of their
colleagues. All are as divided in opinion as the rest of the Venezuelans.
The act of
UCV, even though it has been concurred and respected in its final Manifesto,
does not represent the final position of civil society, much less the official
opinion of the CEV and AVERU as a whole, nor can it derive opinion matrices
that lead us to think that Venezuelan civil society supports this new
initiative of the MUD, now called Frente Amplio Venezuela Libre, nor its
disqualified political leaders. It is also difficult to dissociate one act from
the other, or for the latter to be the result of manipulation of the former.
They may manipulate some, but not all. This "unitary" blackmail was
reckless and aims to bring the country's political situation back to the
previous state of the Dominican Republic.
Consequently,
the position of the National Constituent Alliance-ANCO remains unperturbed and
consistent with the official position already expressed by the Catholic Church:"... that civil society carry out a
consultation to indicate the direction it wishes to take to the nation as
foreseen in our Magna Carta (cf. Art. 71)" (n. 6). It is the people
themselves, and not a spurious instance that puts things in their right place”.
This only translates into our only and categorical affirmation to Venezuelan
civil society: That the Venezuelan people decide.
Caracas, March 11, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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