By Luis Manuel Aguana
They call
us divisionists, it's not the first time. That we do not "understand"
the political moment in the country, proposing a constituent one, that what it
does is to put more confusion than there is in the environment and in the
political discussion, preventing somehow the solution that Venezuelans are
looking for to the problem. That we have to "simplify" the message
because, who understands that of "constituent" at this moment? That
what is there is now is to leave the regime and rescue democracy by any means
necessary, as some political voices clearly say. A friend of mine once told me
rightly that no one said life was easy. And it certainly has not been for
anyone who swims against the tide of public opinion that cries out for change
at the cost of anything.
Even if I
repeat like a parrot that what we are proposing is not a constituent but a
scenario where all Venezuelans can reconcile in peace in the legitimate
proportions that each one is entitled to, discussing in that space a new
Project of Country for a nation immersed in the greatest of chaos, completely
unbound and destroyed.
Are we
Venezuelans willing to do that? That's the big question. The 1999 constitution
was the imposition of one country on another in a fraudulent manner. Fifty-two
percent of the votes were cast with 98% of the constituent assembly members,
leaving the remaining 48% without voice nor vote. That could not be stable in
the long term creating the conditions for the April 2002 events. What are we
proposing? Resolve the problem created in 1999 at its root, restoring to the
people their right to have the country they themselves design within the
framework of a legitimate Constituent, resolving on the way the serious problem
of who should be in government.
It is clear
that from 1999 a lot of water has passed under the bridge, including the Cuban
invasion backed by a traitor as President of the Republic, with the imposition
of a model that does not correspond to what the Venezuelan people are
culturally, nor does it want for their future. That complicated and distorted
the picture dramatically more, to the point that it is not being correctly seen
what solution to apply to this phenomenon.
And if we
spice that up with the interests of other countries, created as a result of the
initial disaster, such as the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, and stop counting,
along with the historical confrontation of the blocs and interests of foreign
powers in the east and west of the world, you will tell me who is in control of
the situation in Venezuela.
But
returning to the beginning of the reason for the approach and its relevance,
with the current state of confusion, all the initial and principled references
were lost. Everyone's voice is now in the "let's get out of the regime
now, and wherever", and there is a lot of reason for that. People die like
flies in hospitals, there is no medicine, they eat from garbage, wages are not
enough to live on, with an economy and an industrial and commercial park
completely destroyed.
Anyone who
rides on a stage to say this would convince anyone to join in any madness that
changes the state of things, that in the end it is nothing more than a consequence
of something that originated long before 1999 when the country began to gasp as
a result of the inconsistencies of the political class of that time, which now
with the most washed face ever claimed to have the "solution" in its
hands, as if they were not the primary culprits of the disaster. And tell me
about those who were and managed the disaster itself at the beginning and who
now call themselves "light opponents" of the regime by putting
"the purple soup". No greater nerve possible. And they still tell us
we're the ones who confuse the country! You have to remember....
And when you
start working on solving the consequences of a disaster and not on the causes
that originated it, it invariably ends up starting again. That happens even in
the simplest things, such as when you have a leak that is eating a wall of the
house and deals only with fixing the wall without resolving the leakage of
water from the pipe that is the real cause . If you really want to solve the
problem you have to break the wall first, look for the pipe where the water
leak is, repair it and then rebuild the wall. Well, the Venezuelans are being
sold every day to throw the wall only without repairing the pipe. It will work
for a while but invariably we will have to throw the wall again, with all that
implies, with the risk that it will fall on us.
But beyond
that there is something that has remained on the road that few see and that is
crucial to solving the serious political problem of the country and is the
division that has been made of the Venezuelans. There were never in our country
any differences and hatred between us, regardless of our condition. The
differences between "rich and poor,""entrepreneurs and
workers," even race differences, were artificially created deliberately as
a means to accentuate a non-existent hatred among Venezuelans for imposing a
strange philosophy and ideology to seize power. This is not going to be solved
by “a change of government”. This will be exacerbated by that change, if it is
done without reconciling those differences in the process.
When we
talk about a solution, we cannot remain in the simple "change of
government". The problem is deeper than that. We must consider the
beginning of the change in what they have done to us in almost 20 years of strange
"revolution", and which begins with an introspective look at who we
are and why we have come this far. It is not enough to orchestrate
"getting out of Maduro", it is necessary to get out of everything
that originated it, laying the foundations for a new way of doing politics in
Venezuela.
Why do you
think that when we consider holding a popular consultation, we are not talking
initially about leaving the regime but about reconciliation? Because there is
no way to rebuild Venezuela without counting on absolutely all Venezuelans, not
just a part of them, who really want to return to the scheme when we had no
differences and acted as one country. That cannot be just rhetoric, it must be
a reality, if we really want to be a united nation with common purposes, not
one side imposing itself on the other. And what are those purposes? The
ones we define together! For that we must come together in peace in a
legitimate space built for that. That's a legitimate National Constituent Assembly.
Do you find
it very innocent? I invite you to reflect on this: What would have happened if
there had not been 16J? Maybe we were killing each other on the streets in the
middle of a civil war. But a group of innocents from the National Constituent
Alliance led by Enrique Colmenares Finol opposed this state of things that
everyone wanted (street, street and more street) and proposed a different route
to the MUD, convincing them - in spite of them, because that was not in their
plans - to go to a peaceful consultation where all Venezuelans participated as
a political solution to the problem. We threw them to them so that they batted
it of home run and they decided to strike out ignoring the direct command of
the people. Now 16J is a political reference for Venezuela and the world.
Paradoxically, however, many opposition groups now use the civic action of 16J
as a political flag to move their own aspirations, who would have thought?
Well, we
propose once again that the people, this time in a decisive political manner,
take a position as an alternative for resolving at the root of a problem that
no political group is - and will not be - in a position to solve. Ideas do not
have to come out of groups with money or relevant political positions, as long
as they are pertinent and aimed at solving a problem that belongs to everyone,
with no greater interest than that of the country. That's what we did with a
group of concerned Venezuelans on Thursday, February 22,2018, with the Manifesto
"Great Alliance for Popular Consultation, Unity and Reconciliation"
(read it in Spanish at http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2018/02/manifiesto-gran-alianza-por-la-consulta.html).
Perhaps, just maybe there is a distant possibility in Venezuela to do things
well without the wall not falling on us....
Caracas,
February 24,2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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