By Luis Manuel Aguana
The expression "original chavismo" became fashionable to
denote all those who embraced the initial ideas of Hugo Chávez and who accompanied
the Galáctico when it began the work of destruction of Venezuela that we knew
until 1998. However, let's see, the 3,673,685 people who voted for that coup in
1998 (I don't count myself among them) could also be called "original
chavistas". That is to say, of the 6,988,291 Venezuelan voters (1) in the
Electoral Registry of that time, 56.20% of them voted for the option of the
coup plotter of Sabaneta de Barinas, in a participation of 63.45%, 3.3% more
than in the previous presidential election (see Venezuelan presidential
election, 1998, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_election,_1998). De acuerdo a
esta definición, muchísima gente era chavista originaria en 1998.
But now it turns out that a group of old companions of Chávez and
initiators of this tragedy have emerged, and that they have been excluded from
the current chavismo-madurismo, that calling themselves with that remoquet, try
to appropriate that which did not have a name, giving themselves a
differentiating and "democratic" character to distance themselves
from this abomination that now governs us.
The thing has reached the point where they dare to address the Secretary
General of the OAS and ask him for an audience to be considered in a possible
transition in the country (see in Spanish http://elestimulo.com/blog/chavismo-originario-pide-a-la-oea-apoyar-una-transicion-para-estabilizar-el-pais/).
In other words, not content with being a historical part responsible for
the beginning of this present tragedy, they somehow seek a place in what may
come in the future. One could not expect anything less from the one who shouted
"murderer" to Commissioner Lázaro Forero, precisely they were the
protagonists and those responsible for that tragic 11th of April. Impossible
greater cynicism.
But since they know that the memory of Venezuelans is short, they go to
the OAS and get Almagro's attention and good will, taking advantage of the need
for reconciliation among Venezuelans (see in Spanish https://twitter.com/Almagro_OEA2015/status/1053685260037357571?s=03).
And certainly politics is good for everything, even that, although some
of us now find it disgusting. However, in the approach of this "original chavista"
there is a conceptual error that escapes the naked eye. Neither Juan Barreto
nor his companions are "original chavistas". These were and continue
to be the exploiters of the real original Chavistas, who in 1998, as the
figures show, expected a positive change for the country. Those who believed
that the Adecos and Copeyanos "were thieves", without even imagining
the magnitude that this denomination could reach after 20 years of
uninterrupted looting. What existed before 1998 were apprentices of thieves
compared to what they turned out to be.
Original Chavistas were those more than 3.6 million people who obstinate
of the behavior of the traditional parties and their main leaders, first voted
for Caldera in 1993, as first chance anti-party, and then threw the rest with
the coup plotter Hugo Chavez in 1998, in an unsuccessful search for public
decency and honest development for Venezuela.
But that "original chavista" when he saw the results of his
error in voting for Chávez in 1998, was gradually leaving the flags of that
pseudo-revolution, and now he is orphaned because he doesn't believe in anyone.
Neither in the dead that they say he lives, nor in the alive that he stole from
the country and is leaving it to die of hunger and disease. And much less in
these unburied corpses of that initial Chavismo that pretends to call itself
"Original Chavismo.
Who did Chávez embody before those 1998 elections? Venezuela was
forgotten by all politicians and in a sort of revengeful crusade it promised
the country the head of the thieves fried in boiling oil. The result of that
was predictable. Those who bought that avenging speech were the original
Chavistas. The common people, the one who always waited and didn't deliver, and
who is now manipulated by the stomach with a CLAP box.
That Venezuelan has no political denomination. He is the one who danced
in the adecas and copeyanas pilgrimages looking for accommodation and that
after winning Chávez filled the PSUV meetings. He continues to be that
Venezuelan who was exploited with clientelist populism and when the
government's money runs out, now he is looking for a new hope. But that hope
cannot lie in returning to the past, much less exploring the bleak communist
future offered by the regime. But there don't seem to be many options.
The offer is either to go to an election with an arbiter controlled by
the regime, including a probable referendum approving a communist constitution,
with the approval of a collaborationist opposition, or to wait for foreign aid
that does not arrive. There are not many options available to this
Venezuelan.
However, in this magnitude of the crisis, the channels of communication
are being opened in some way with that leadership that calls itself
"original chavista" that even the Secretary General of the OAS gives
them belligerence. I regret that entry that Secretary General Almagro has given
them. They do not represent the Venezuelan people in any way, nor do those who
now have responsibilities in the regime of Nicolás Maduro. No transition can be
negotiated with criminals. With criminals you negotiate their way out, not
co-government. There can be no mistake about that, especially from the
leadership that is said to be in radical opposition in Venezuela.
Everyone lost legitimacy, including the official opposition. It is
necessary the emergence of a new opposition leadership -not necessarily
generational- that is based on the actions of each one in the face of the
realities imposed on us by the serious political situation. And that only comes
from each of the regions of the country to an appeal to the original
constituent.
Faced with a call for "council elections" and
"constitutional referendum", the National Constituent Alliance
(Alianza Nacional Constituyente-ANCO) proposes the convocation of a constituent
consultation WITHOUT CNE, organized by civil society with the help of the
international community, so that the sovereign can decide (see in Spanish ANCO
ante la crisis humanitaria continental, en http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2018/10/comunicado-anco-ante-la-crisis.html).
If the thing is as the American Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, says in
the Voice of America, then let the people decide for real: "I hope that the Venezuelan people will restore democracy in their
country. If they elect Maduro, well, you know, that would be the choice of
Venezuelans. As you said, describing the horrors Maduro has inflicted on his people,
that seems unlikely to me” (see interview of the Secretary of State of the
United States, Mike Pompeo to the Voice of America, in https://www.voanoticias.com/a/pompeo-entrevista-mexico-inmigracion-venezuela-/4621578.html?platform=hootsuite).
It follows from the above that they expect the
transition to come out of a "normal" electoral process with these
criminals, which will not happen if the dissuasive methods Pompeo himself
refers to are not applied: “I trust we
will find other ways in which we can exert pressure in a way that convinces
Maduro that this is not going to work, that he will not be able to retain power
forever, and that oppressing his people in the way you have just described is
inhumane and inappropriate”. And to force these methods to occur will
require a radical change in the electoral system, as the legitimate TSJ ruled
on June 13, 2018. Only in this way will it be possible to count on the decision
of the true "Original Chavismo" without any mediatization, and it
will be possible to say without any lack of truth that the genuine chavistas
demonstrated and we are in the presence of a true process of reconciliation
among Venezuelans…
Caracas, October 22, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
(1) Errata: Corrected from the
initially published version that indicated the word "inscribed" in
the wrong way. Grateful to readers who noticed the
error.
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