23E, the vindication of dry leather

By Luis Manuel Aguana

Versión en español 

The coincidence of having appointed militants of the PSUV as Magistrates of the Supreme Court of Justice in Venezuela, with the decision of the case of the disqualification of María Corina Machado (MCM), and especially the appointment of an enemy of enabling MCM as President of the pro-government Supreme Court of Justice, as demonstrated by her decisions as President of the Electoral Chamber of the illegitimate Supreme Court of Justice, was to be expected.

This sends a clear message as to the tone of the decision that the legal representation of MCM in that Supreme Court, headed by Dr. Perkins Rocha, has so much sought, in the midst of the most absurd humiliations.

But this effort to follow the route demanded by the regime "to comply with the Barbados agreements" seems to be the same game of dragging out to the end the death of the previous agreements that the regime said it would respect but did not, achieving everything for them and nothing for Venezuelans. So far, this scoreboard has never been in favor of the political prisoners, nor for the improvement of the conditions of workers and pensioners, nor to reduce the aggressions of the henchmen against the freedom of expression and public demonstration.

Then, what is the reason to continue crashing against that wall? I believe that if the regime had really intended to comply with those electoral agreements of Barbados, MCM would not have to worry today about a disqualification that in justice does not exist or about a law that intends to bring all the NGOs of the country, including the electoral and Human Rights NGOs, to their knees before the regime's scaffold. What else is needed to make it clear that the regime has spiked the tires of the bus that leads MCM to that route?

Certainly, the regime is interested in elections, but -and this but is very important- WITHOUT MCM. However, if MCM is the candidate of the Unitary Platform, product of a primary election that the same brand new President of the TSJ of the regime declared null and void, what would be left of those agreements of Barbados, when it is the Unitary Platform of the parties defeated by MCM who are leading it and not her? It would remain that the opposition does not have a single candidate to support, leaving the rest of the pseudo opposition free to seek solutions with a candidate potable to the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros.

From the above, it is possible to understand statements such as those of Eduardo Fernandez on Globovisión who "stressed that all leaders who want a political change in the upcoming presidential elections must present to the country a great consensus or "conclave" to define the candidate who will face the ruling party" (see in Spanish Eduardo Fernandez "Whoever faces Maduro must be able to unify the country after 24 years of confrontation", in https://hispanopost.com/eduardo-fernandez-quien-enfrente-a-maduro-debe-poder-unificar-al-pais-tras-24-anos-de-confrontacion/). He did not say that before October 22, 2023, but in January 2024.

Has Eduardo Fernandez not realized that MCM is the opposition candidate of the unity, elected by the votes of the Venezuelans? He wants to hold a "conclave" to define a candidate that Venezuelans have already decided on October 22, 2023. You will understand where the regime is headed, again with the little help of the complacent opposition.

They are already arranging the bed so that the so-called Unitary Platform leaves the elected candidate with the brush in her hand and agrees with the regime on "other possible solutions" to the disqualification of MCM as its candidate, taking into account that this "unitary candidate" is not such due to the ruling of the new President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the regime. And if MCM is bothered by this, she will be pointed out as "disturbing" the peace of the electoral process agreed in Barbados, with the consequent pointing out to her and all of us who follow her as violent opponents subject to persecution, subject to her "Bolivarian Rage".

And what will the International Community and the guarantors of the Barbados Agreements say? That they respect the Venezuelan "Judicial Power" and will not interfere in that, waiting for the elections to take place, which they want to believe will "solve" the Venezuelan problem.

And if an analyst from a tiny corner of the web like this one, with no more information than what is already public, notorious and communicational, sees it from afar, what will not those who are really close to that candle see, and who hide it by letting MCM crash in front of a clear reality in front of everyone's eyes? The queen is naked and nobody tells her! Only he who does not want to see does not see, and I regret very much that before this succession of events that seem unstoppable, the answer that Venezuelans perceive from the candidate's command, who is not yet a candidate because the regime does not - and will not - want to, is "we are going to win" an election, in which she is not officially participating yet, because "we will have 600K witnesses organized". Did I miss something?

In view of this, Venezuelans have two ways out: a) we accept without any opinion what the regime may do with the opposition of the Unitary Platform that manages the negotiations in Barbados, and we will participate in elections of which we all know the result; or b) we openly and clearly reject any arrangement or negotiation with the collaborationist opposition, loser of the primaries, which implies an election without the true elected representative of the popular sovereignty, pointing out and denouncing from the outset a fraud against the will of Venezuelans.

The International Community will see if it really wishes to solve the conflict of Venezuelans, accepting an openly rigged election from the very selection of the candidates, or else reject it in the same way it rejected the election of Nicolás Maduro Moros in 2018, or the recent consultative referendum of the Esequibo, where nobody attended that farce, and the regime was forced to invent 10 million votes out of thin air. I do not believe that the International Community, with the US at the head, will accept a presidential election with votes clearly invented by Maduro's CNE, but who knows, in Venezuela the most unusual things have happened and we have paid for them.

In the face of these macabre plans of the regime, we have no choice but to seriously invoke and vindicate the lapidary phrase of a 19th century Venezuelan president, Antonio Guzmán Blanco: "Venezuela is like a dried leather, you step on it on one side and it rises up on the other". I believe that today, January 23rd, we must understand and apply more than ever that historical phrase, and act accordingly to what is coming our way. We will need it very much during this year, full of those who wish to step on the country and get away with it for their own benefit, hoping that the dry leather will remain still...

Caracas, January 23, 2024

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