In a simple act, but full of deep political significance for Venezuela, the Citizens' Conferences for the Constitutional and Democratic Restoration were installed on Monday, April 19, with a massive presence of personalities from all parts of the country (see in Spanish ANCO’s Press Note in, https://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2021/04/instaladas-conferencias-ciudadanas-para.html. This installation has an important connotation for what will come from now on for citizen struggles in Venezuela, given the broad citizen participation that the signing of the Citizen Pact for the Constitutional and Democratic Reestablishment has had for Venezuelan civil society, which we have already explained in this space.
However, after that event, many Venezuelans were surprised, and rightly so, that the name of the Conference was already circulating as a signatory of a manifesto to the country without the ink having dried on the words spoken at that event by Dr. Blanca Rosa Mármol de León, Eng. Enrique Colmenares Finol and Dr. Oswaldo Álvarez Paz; and even less on the content of the Pact itself, read by the brave young Venezuelan Sairam Rivas, victim of the murderous regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros.
The Citizens' Conference for the Constitutional and Democratic Reestablishment could hardly subscribe any document or manifesto because it has not yet designated the formal representation of the organizations that have subscribed the Pact, much less authorized spokespersons. At this moment, what exists are entities and personalities promoting these Conferences that have taken a step forward to accomplish the unprecedented feat of establishing a genuine representation of the Venezuelans that we ordered a mandate with a Popular Consultation held from December 7 to 12, 2020 and that we seek to comply with. That said, Venezuelans must remain calm until that happens and that all the Citizen Conferences throughout the country with their respective formal representations derived from the subscription of a Pact to free Venezuela are established as soon as possible with names and representatives.
Having said that, I will not go into what will or will not be done in this novel citizens' initiative. That will be taken care of by its own spokespersons. This writer will simply wait until these Conferences are formed and will comment on their adventures, because it will certainly be quite an adventure what will come from now on if there are really-truly those who speak and act with their own voice and hand and not intercepted, about the things that must be done to liberate Venezuela, and best of all, with the real interest to do so. That will be like a breeze in the face in the middle of a very hot summer. A breeze that I hope will become a hurricane of freedom when they begin to act as we Venezuelans expect.
Many years ago, before the Internet, there was a best-selling author in the United States who published two books that reached the top of the New York Times bestseller list. His name was Harvey Mackay. The books were organized as pills of knowledge regarding business and even personal life and behavior. I was familiar with Mackay's work at that time, 30 years ago, which is why I have the yellowed books in their original English editions. I recently looked him up on the net and it turns out that he has a page where both books are reviewed: "Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive" and "Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt". (see Harvey Mackay, in https://harveymackay.com/). I highly recommend reading both of them because of the shark's nest that Venezuela has become today. And although their original focus was on business, it applies perfectly to politics and other matters of life.
These days I remembered Mackay in one of his books, the one about the naked man who offers you his shirt, because he gave me an answer that I could not find in relation to the issue of the permanent conflict among Venezuelans, which I have reviewed during all these years in order to get out of the regime. And he gave me the answer in his Lesson 23 of the second book entitled: "You`re not managing a change, you`re managing conflict". That`s right! A conflict!... All this time I had believed that we had in our hands the management of a paradigm shift when what we really had was a conflict for wanting to change things. And both things have a completely different management.
And certainly that is what we are managing in the civil society, a conflict among ourselves of many factors that do not wish to change the things that must be changed for Venezuela to move forward, before and after getting rid of these criminals. Many of those factors in conflict do so in good faith and are the most difficult to convince because they truly believe in their positions. And that is the monumental challenge of the Big Change we wish for Venezuela and of which these Conferences will only be the vanguard to be able to penetrate the walls of a regime that refuses to fall. My concern is only focused on the conflict with the truly honest ones because those who are not honest have been exposed for a long time by the Venezuelan people and do not deserve any mention.
Mackay gave a good example of this when he explained that managing an organization can be a lot like managing a failed political campaign. And why? Because in the United States, parties spend a year and a half fighting among their own people to choose an internal primary candidate and only three months fighting with the other party's candidate. If you are not careful, you will have built up enough internal resentment among your own people to prevent you from winning the election in those three months, and if you are not careful, you lose the election before it has even begun. Interesting, isn't it? "Before you can beat the guys on the other team, you need to have your own people on board". That is indisputable... However, "the other team" here is the delinquent regime of Maduro and that is why we are closing ranks around a binding element expressed in a Pact, and what better binding element than the popular, constitutional and binding mandate of 6.4 million Venezuelans?
I think most of the "guys" as Mackay says, are on board or about to embark. Already many of them have signed the Pact and are willing to stand up for freedom which is the only fight that unifies and should matter here. Those are the guys we are interested in, the ones who have signed a Pact for freedom that unites them all in the same fight, because the rest is secondary. Any election will have to come later and that is why we call them free elections, because they will be held in freedom....
Caracas, April 22, 2021
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