By Luis Manuel Aguana
In view of the comments made by some friends (and others not so friends)
in relation to my last note (see The
King is naked, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_41.html)
and in general to the treatment that I have given to the tour of
President-in-Charge Juan Guaidó, and contrary to the precept that says do not
clarify because you get tangled up', I believe that it is necessary to make
some clarifications in the light of the latest changes made by the official
opposition to Guaidó's itinerary and the new news that indicates that he will
indeed go to the United States, specifically to the State of Florida.
No one has questioned the effort that the official opposition is making
to raise Guaidó's image, especially applying it when its numbers in the polls
were plummeting, this trip comes as a surprise, "jumping the other
fence" as I called it in a past note. That's something that must be
granted to the interim government's political marketing strategists. However, I
also said that this was not just a show, that it had to bring concrete results
for a people eager for concrete solutions. People are desperate and worse,
hopeless. It's not just the circus that counts!
And those results are in direct proportion to the strategy that Guaidó
and his advisors have in mind on how to resolve this tragedy. Based on that,
they would look for such and such allies to force a way out of the monumental
crisis of the Venezuelans from the outside. So far, what we have been told is
that this can be resolved with elections, in a clear opposite way to many of
those who have been analyzing this problem for years. Thank God the United
States government is already very clear that elections cannot be held with
Maduro in power. But it seems that Guaido and his team do not think the same,
not said by me but by themselves, when attempting dialogues and electoral approaches
with the regime of Nicolas Maduro Moros.
When Guaidó said in Canada that he denied "any possible meeting
with Donald Trump" (see in Spanish 2001, in http://www.2001.com.ve/en-la-agenda/221726/guaido-aprueba-las-reuniones-de-canada-y-cuba-para-resolver-la-crisis-venezolana.html) I immediately said to myself: what's the point
of leaving the country if the first person you have to meet to find a way out
of the tragedy is precisely Donald Trump, the main world ally? What are these
guys thinking?
Immediately the defenders of the interim jumped up justifying that
"it didn't depend" on Guaidó. Please! What insult is that to the
Venezuelan's intelligence? If the first one who wants this mess to be solved in
the hemisphere is the United States! Guaidó met in Colombia with Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo. It's very hard to think that an agenda to Washington of the
President in charge could not be resolved there if it had been wanted. That's
my point. But if you have nothing to ask or propose, and no defined strategy to
propose to Trump, it is clear that you have nothing to do in the United States.
It would be stupid to go and propose to Trump an election with the regime in
power to get Maduro out, which is what the official opposition has in mind so
far. Even they know that! But they still want to convince us!
Even without the messiness of Guaidó's statements regarding Cuba, which
the official opposition was quick to respond to because the country flatly
rejected any intermediation to "agree" with Canada on any solution
with those who have invaded us without firing a single shot, the official
opposition has not yet shown anything that indicates a different way out than
the electoral one they have proposed. When that exploded, Guaidó's strategists
thought they had somehow to invent a visit to the United States and at least
try to take the picture with Trump. Hence the change in plans. It wasn't that
they "thought" the visit in advance and we, the bad guys and
"Juan Guaidó's detractors," went ahead and said he wouldn't go to the
United States. No. That was never in the program until they arrived in Canada.
So much so that Guaidó himself informed the press, as was reported by
international news agencies and highlighted by 2001.com.
So the problem wasn't that they didn't "want" to go to the
United States. It was how they were going to appear in Washington to present a
coherent strategy to Donald Trump as a way out of the Venezuelan crisis, beyond
an electoral chimba solution that he has already rejected, or a kind of
endorsement of what they have already done with the sanctions to the regime's
criminals. Difficult, isn't
it?
But Guaidó DOES have something he can present to Trump. And why do I say
that? Because more than 150 personalities from all sectors of the country
presented it to him in a letter sent to the President in Charge on December 1,
2019, and that consists fundamentally in the fact that the solution to the crisis
that the country is suffering requires the active participation and the
decision of all Venezuelans, not only of the political sector (see in Spanish Carta a Guaidó in http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2019/12/anco-apoya-la-convocatoria-una-consulta.html).
This participation is established in the
Constitution in Article 5, the sovereignty resides in the people, who can exercise
it directly through the mechanisms established in the Constitution; and Article
333, all Venezuelans, invested or not with authority, are in the duty to
restore the validity of the Constitution. The mechanisms for directly
exercising sovereignty are established in Article 70. The Popular Consultation
included therein is the ideal instrument to be applied in this circumstance, administered completely by
Venezuelan civil society, which can do so because the Constitution allows it,
since the consultations of the people are not within the competence of the
Electoral Power (Article 293.5).
The President-in-Office can present President Trump with a solution that
does not consist of elections, which is right in the middle of a solution of
force and an electoral event, managed by the Venezuelan people themselves with
their help and that of the rest of the international community; and which would
equally demonstrate the decision of a people to live in democracy and freedom.
And to take away from Trump the commitment to help us make effective the
popular mandate in case the regime refuses to leave power, if the mandate so
orders. How would Trump help us? In achieving that plebiscitary popular
consultation to be done STANDING MADE in Miraflores and to be collected later.
The Plebiscitary Popular Consultation would be the answer to the Europe
that wants elections WITH MADURO IN POWER and to those countries that have
expressly declared that they will not participate in an armed intervention. But
what is not negotiable is that it should be administered by the regime, but by
the civil society with the help of the international community and qualified
international observation bodies.
Can that be achieved? It depends on how much the interim government
wants to continue to live with Maduro in an endless two-way relationship with
the regime. We are not enemies of Guaidó or his interim government. We are
enemies of insisting on elections that will not only not solve Venezuela's
problem, but will give legitimacy to the tyranny by using the votes of
Venezuelans, distorted by a corrupt electoral power. Maduro and his regime must
leave by mandate of the Venezuelan people, with votes that the citizens
themselves count for, by hook or by crook. And if it is by the bad way, it must
be equally by the decision of all Venezuelans.
Caracas, January
30, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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