The unhappy phrase "We are not going to stop for her (referring to Maria Corina Machado, MCM), we will choose among all of us a new candidate to be the President of all Venezuelans" pronounced by the Governor of Barinas, Sergio Garrido, which beyond seeming to come from someone of the regime, touches the real bottom of the problem we Venezuelans have: the total disregard that the political leadership has always had for the feelings of those who embody the popular sovereignty. (see in Spanish Maduradas, Las críticas al gobernador Sergio Garrido por pedir que se designate un candidato sustituto, in https://maduradas.com/las-criticas-al-gobernador-sergio-garrido-pedir-se-designe-candidato-sustituto-no-nos-parar-maria-corina/).
In effect, once elected, the political class, regardless of their color, feel they have the right to decide for us our lives because at some point we granted them the representation of our interests, holding positions of popular representation.
This "realpolitik" of the adecos like Garrido is not new. They prefer to "bend so as not to split", as Henry Ramos Allup himself has always said. Those of us who have followed him for more years than we want to admit, have come to the logical conclusion that this is the fundamental reason why they have survived so many years after the nuclear explosion represented by Hugo Chávez Frías and his "robolution" for the partycracy headed by Acción Democrática in 1998. And like cockroaches under the rocks, after the explosion, they emerged one by one to merge with those who took power through democratic means and modified all the institutional mechanisms to perpetuate themselves in power.
Historical figures of that party, who had a quite different idea about power and saw it as an instrument to change the lives of citizens, and not as a joker to use it in their favor according to their interests, would have viewed with disgust and contempt that leadership that, like Sergio Garrido, now presents itself against the very reason for its historical existence.
And why am I so sure of that? Because it was demonstrated by a distinguished Venezuelan, Secretary General of the Democratic Action in the underground in 1952, Alberto Carnevali, who wrote a historic document calling for a Civil Rebellion because the regime ignored the claim of Venezuelans at the ballot box, just as Nicolás Maduro Moros is doing with the election of MCM as the candidate of the Venezuelan opposition. This document can be perfectly replicated to our current situation. Below you will find a brief segment of the document, and in parentheses I will put the dates, places and names to bring it to the present:
"These votes cast by the people on November 30 (October 22) did not seek the exclusive triumph of any political organization in particular but that of all political forces with true roots in the popular heartland. They sought the recovery of national sovereignty and the reconquest of freedom for all Venezuelans. They sought the peace and harmony of the nation, criminally broken by absolutism. Those votes severely condemned the savage despotic predominance of the military clique of Colonel Pérez Jiménez (Nicolás Maduro Moros). They spoke the righteous language of protest against collective terror, in favor of the thousands of impotent victims of the deadly concentration camp of Guasina (El Helicoide and La Tumba), of physical and moral torture, of prison and exile, of unemployment, of the arbitrary layoffs imposed at work due to political discrimination, and of the outrageous outrage of the police gangs that daily run over homes and degrade families in every corner of the country. In those ballot boxes was consigned the general indignation for the cold-blooded murder of our unforgettable leader Dr. Leonardo Ruiz Pineda (put here all the names of those murdered by the regime) and other self-sacrificing fighters of the popular resistance. To those ballot boxes went, in short, the clean condemnatory voice of the whole nation, which repudiates in all tones the tiny and conceited clique of ambitious military chiefs, determined to continue mocking the popular sovereignty and debasing the Republic.
But the sick obsession of command of Colonel Pérez Jiménez (of Nicolás Maduro Moros) has dragged him to disregard the admonishing voice of the nation, in a reckless challenge that will be decisive and deadly for the implacable liquidation of despotism. Against the opinion of nearly two million people who represent the fullness of the political conscience of the country; shamelessly ignoring that the totality of the social sectors of the nation despise and detest him, Colonel Pérez Jiménez (Nicolás Maduro Moros) inflicted on December 2 (October 22, 2023) a new and unusual outrage to the national dignity by trampling -with the typical boots of the ignorant and vesanic barbarian- the naïve expression of the sovereignty of an entire people...". I recommend you to read the complete document entitled "A la Rebelión Civil llama Acción Democrática" dated December 24, 1952, courtesy of Dr. Alfredo Coronil Hartmann. (see in Spanish, en http://pararescatarelporvenir.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-la-rebelion-civil-llama-accion.html).
Alberto Carnevali gave his life for those words, because after that the regime of that time persecuted him, captured him and killed him, in the same way the current regime does, locking him up and letting him die without medical attention. Carnevali did not bend and they broke him, but his legacy and moral example remained intact for generations of Venezuelans.
A little more than 70 years later, the Democratic Action of this pseudo leader from Barinas, from the same party that shed blood to make those words effective, "bends not to split" before the regime, accepting that those 2.4 million votes we cast for MCM are the opposite of what Alberto Carnevali said in that document, despising popular sovereignty. Do you realize the seriousness of our current situation? The problem is not that we are economically ruined because of some criminals, but that this ruin is also ethical and moral, and what is left of this disgusting morality is accommodated so as not to break. And that cannot be solved with money.
What has happened in Venezuela has been serious enough for us to be killing ourselves in a bloody civil war caused by criminals who have brought the incredible patience of a people committed to peace to the brink of extinction. But 2.4 million people are not willing to continue bending over backwards to avoid splitting like the governor of Barinas. Soon we will see how far the regime intends to take the democratic mood of the people. And this has nothing to do with the International Community. It has to do with the extent to which good will stand up to evil in its historical struggle. And if you remember, that evil here is overwhelmingly in the minority. Pérez Jiménez understood that and left...
Caracas, February 1st, 2024
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