By Luis
Manuel Aguana
“We
the People
of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings
of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish
this Constitution for the United States of America”.
Thus begins the text of the most perfect Constitution in the world,
that of the United States of America approved on September 17, 1787,
which without varying in more than 200 years has shown to have
faithfully fulfilled the aspirations of those who approved it. WE THE
PEOPLE, "WE the people..." in its original language.
And
why do I bring up in this special moment of Venezuela this historical
text that already belongs to humanity, not only to the Americans?
Because if the Founding Fathers of the most perfect democracy in the
world demonstrated anything, it is that the principles on which they
created it were based on something that is imperishable: the will of
the people. And the will of the people, which we later translate as
Sovereignty, passes over those who can at some point represent it.
From
an extraordinary opening conference of the Francisco Marroquín
University of Guatemala in 2010, given by José Piñera (brother of
President Sebastián Piñera), who was former Minister of Labor and
Social Welfare of Chile and responsible for the reform of that
country's pension system, entitled "The
Founding Fathers of the United States of America and Lessons for
Latin America"
(I strongly suggest everyone devote an hour of their time to see it
in http://newmedia.ufm.edu/pinerapadresfundadores,
or read the transcript on my blog at
http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2014/09/los-padres-fundadores-de-los-estados.html),
it shows how a democracy like the North American one has endured and
grown strong over time, precisely because it is built on solid
principles. I addressed this issue more than 5 years ago (see
in Spanish
De Padres, Principios y Partidos, in
http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2014/09/de-padres-principios-y-partidos.html)
and is still fully valid for Venezuela and Latin America.
It
emerges from this conference that one fundamental contribution to the
humanity of the founders of that perfect democracy, in particular
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), with the American Declaration of
Independence, was to establish that the powers of governments derive
from their citizens ("WE the people"). Second, that men
"...are born with rights given by their Creator and those rights
are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...And that to secure
those rights, men institute governments among themselves, which
derive their powers from citizens". "WE, the people",
again. In this sense Jefferson defines what a government should
defend and guarantee: the right to life, freedom and the pursuit of
happiness; and "that men organize themselves into governments to
protect these rights. According to Piñera: "In other words,
Jefferson teaches us that power, the legitimate goal of governments -
governments are power - is to protect our rights. The legitimate goal
of governments is not for politicians to enrich themselves or live a
life of privilege or abuse their power. No, no, no. Or try to
micromanage our lives; try to teach us how to eat breakfast, or try
to teach us how to swim. No, no, no. Governments are instituted among
men to protect those rights...".
Why all this prior
explanation? Because if any country understands the meaning of the
actions of citizens to defend freedom over their representatives, it
is precisely the United States. It's in their DNA. The citizens of
the United States have passed over their governments and
representatives, and constitutionally they have changed them by
renouncing the corrupt. That is what we want to do in Venezuela, not
only with the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, but now with the mafia
that accompanies President Encargado Juan Guaidó, who yesterday
demonstrated that they prefer to betray the commitment with the
people to leave Nicolás Maduro first, going to a cohabitation
arrangement with the regime, following the Henry Ramos Allup doctrine
of "authoritarian enclaves", of coexistence with Maduro and
his thieves, unacceptable if we want to start with a clean and free
democracy, the only way to rebuild Venezuela. That doctrine is
inapplicable because it is based on the conceptual error that this is
an old-fashioned dictatorship, not an international criminal and
terrorist mafia. And if they are proposing it as a solution, it is
because they are part of it.
That
is why our proposal for a Popular Plebiscite Consultation goes
through the DIRECT exercise of popular sovereignty established in
Article 5 of our Constitution. And we require that the International
Community understand and support us in that Civil Society has, not
only the constitutionally established right but also the duty to
exercise its sovereignty directly, by virtue of the aggravation of
the crisis that has caused the criminal regime that Venezuela suffers
and by the deviations that the National Assembly and President Juan
Guaidó Marquez are incurring, criminally delaying the solution of
the crisis, negotiating with a delinquent and terrorist regime, and
calling for marches that have demonstrated their uselessness and loss
of Venezuelan lives in recent years.
The
Popular Plebiscite Consultation is a peaceful, constitutional and
electoral proposal for the direct exercise of sovereignty, which goes
beyond what the representation of the National Assembly, Guaidó or
any of their designated officials negotiates with the regime, and its
decisions are binding because they have the value of the
self-determination of the Venezuelan people itself. That should be a
firm course of action for the government of the United States and the
rest of the countries of the world: to clearly demand that the regime
and the Government in Charge of Guaidó submit to the Popular
Sovereignty of Venezuelans through a Popular Consultation established
in the Constitution, and administered by the citizens, under penalty
of continuing and deepening the sanctions. This is a clear and firm
citizen proposal.
It
should be understood that if the regime yields to this Popular
Consultation, it is because it has given in to the credible threat of
worse sanctions (including humanitarian military intervention) and we
will immediately receive all the financial and operational support
necessary to carry it out inside and outside Venezuela, as well as
the assurance that the mandate of the sovereign people will be
respected on pain of carrying out that intervention. The Consultation
could not take place if the necessary assurances are not obtained
from the International Community; but the Popular Consultation would
also give countries that wish to support us full authorization from
the people to proceed in the event of ignorance of the mandate.
The
result of this consultation would be the route to follow
(Transitional Government and Free Elections) and the action of the
countries in relation to the Venezuelan problem. From there, for
example, any country could act, if it so chooses, under the
authorization of the people themselves, and intervene militarily to
resolve humanitarian aid or forcibly evict the regime. It would be
nobody but the people themselves who would decide to authorize the
use of international force. That would be unobjectionable within the
UN Security Council itself. The Popular Consultation would be a
focused pressure from the outside in order to achieve an outcome to
this tragedy, which is not happening now.
President
(E)
Juan Guaidó is already aware of this proposal and has dismissed it
due to multiple interests and compromises with the corrupt on both
sides. They have been trying to square an impossible circle and the
result has been failure for an incredibly simple reason: with
criminals you can't negotiate, you just act. And the Responsible
Government is already beginning to be confused with the usurper.
There is no way to resolve this dilemma without the orderly
intervention of the citizens. And since this intervention cannot be
made through institutional voting, because ALL POWER ARE POWERFUL AND
SEQUESTRATED, IN SPECIAL ELECTORAL, the citizens, the true mourners
of this unbearable tragedy, we can make it directly through the means
that the Constitution provides us. It is no longer possible ANY
electoral solution, as we are stubbornly pretending to sell with the
appointment of the Rectors of the NEC when what must be done is to
completely dismantle and rebuild the electoral system.
I
am not saying that it will be easy, but if this is achieved, if we
manage to convince the Venezuelans and governments of the world of
this fundamental principle that was enunciated in 1787 in the United
States, that the reason why governments exist is to guarantee US, THE
PEOPLE ("WE, the people") the right to life, freedom and
the pursuit of happiness, and that we are the reason why they hold
power, then we will be ensuring that any government that comes later
will subrogate itself to the citizens and we will have a truly
democratic country, at peace and with freedom forever. We will be
putting the horses here in front of the cart because they mistakenly
believe that the power that the politicians hold is immovable, when
that power is given to them by us, WE, the people to guarantee our
rights. Neither Maduro, nor Guaidó, nor the G4-FA, nor anyone else,
can restrict that right for us. Let's make it count!
Caracas,
November 6, 2019
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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