By Luis Manuel Aguana
From the official information from President
Juan Guaidó's press conference on March 27, I extract the following paragraph:
"Don't
believe that story that we can't do on our own. We can be united and mobilized,
of course we can! And neither are we alone, in the face of the international
community. I ask for your trust, we cannot place it in a third party. If we
approved it yesterday in the assembly (187-11), today nothing would happen. We
are being responsible with the expectations and with the protection of the
citizens. We have to evaluate this line of protection, *international
cooperation*, we have Cuban and Russian intervention and we don't want it”.
These words summarize the problem in which we Venezuelans are involved:
the official opposition, headed by Juan Guaidó, insists a) that this is a
Venezuelan problem; b) that with street, street and more street, and of course
more dead and more time, we will solve it; and c) that we can do it alone. At
this moment I don't know if they are doing it for political interest because
they want an election with the regime, or for an ideological problem because
"I don't want the United States to free me," Gilber Caro dixit, or
for simple and pure stupidity, with which it is impossible to reason.
Let's see:
a) Unfortunately, the problem we have in Venezuela escaped to other
borders, it is no longer a "Venezuelan problem". The magnitude and implications
of the mega crisis in Venezuela have long exceeded our capacity to resolve it.
And this was not said by me but by the OAS, the countries of the Lima Group,
the United States, the European Union and the rest of the world. If that is not
clear to the official opposition, we will have Maduro for a while and that
"cessation of usurpation" will only be an unattainable dream;
b) The street, street and more street may be necessary but in no way is it
sufficient. And if it is persistently offered as the "solution" we
will not only have more deaths, but more frustration. It is clear that without
an attitude of struggle we will not come out either, and it must be sustained,
regardless of the seriousness of the situation. But that cannot come alone,
there has to be a complement of certain hope to continue, like the credible
promise of a help in the very short term. If someone falls into a deep well or
remains locked in a mine miles underground, if he does not have the will to
live but with the real hope of being rescued at some point, he dies;
c) If we do not speak clearly and truthfully to the population, acting with
the arrogance and self-sufficiency permanently shown to us by the official
opposition, we will not obtain the necessary collaboration and unified attitude
of the people to move forward. This was amply demonstrated by Sir Winston
Churchill in his famous phrase before the British Parliament, “I have nothing
to offer but blood, effort, tears and sweat”. I would love that attitude on the
part of these leaders, but they lie to people by pointing out a situation that
they know does not correspond to reality. How unhappy was that picture of
Guaidó on the platform of Operation Liberty with all that bunch of broken and
corrupt bats. It made me very sad and made me ask myself, were all the dead so
that these people would remain? That's what undermines the credibility of the
President in Charge, not me writing this note. Think about it...
But what really leaves me indignant of these statements is the second
part: "... I ask for your trust, we
can not deposit it in a third party. If we approved it yesterday in the
assembly (187-11) today nothing was going to happen" Oh my God! What
twisted manipulation is that? I will try to explain it with a simple example.
You have a situation where heavily armed criminals have broken into your
house. You are unarmed and have no way of dealing with this problem (does it
sound familiar?), but you have the possibility of calling 911 for emergencies,
and at that very moment you stop to think that the moment the police burst into
your home with gunshots, you or a member of your family could get hurt or
killed. Minutes are crucial because you already have them on you and have to
make a decision to face them unarmed.
Note here that both options are by no means mutually exclusive, but are
complementary. Only if you try to do it alone you have the highest probability
of getting yourself killed with your family. What would you do? Any person with
two front fingers would make the call and depending on the attitude of whoever
is the protagonist would face or not with the criminals waiting for the police,
but that is another thing because the certain possibility of help is on the
way.
Article 187, numeral 11 functions as if you authorized the police after
making the 911 call (approval of the National Assembly) to enter your house as
if to help you. But the police may not arrive on time or for some reason. But
it will NEVER arrive if you do not call, that is, if you do not manifest an open
willingness to be helped.
But suppose
you don't make that call and decide to face them alone. Besides being stupid,
it's your prerogative as a homeowner. But the neighbors realize that there are
criminals inside your house and that affects them. So they decide to call 911.
The police can, as in the previous case, decide not to come and help. But there
is a neighborhood regulation that obliges them morally and politically to
intervene (R2P), even if the homeowner does not call 911 (Art. 187#11). And here
the thing changes radically and the problem scales to another level.
Neighbors
(and also you internally) know that if the police do not come, the offenders
will not be evicted from your home. But you are telling your family that you
will get yourself a "hero" and evict heavily armed criminals by
"your own means". What would your family say? That you went mad.
Guaidó is
telling us "I ask for your trust
(to get the armed criminals out), we
cannot deposit it in a third party (the police)". What kind of message
is that? What difference is there in this discourse with the reality of the
example? And also adding "If we
approved (call 911) yesterday in the
assembly (187-11) today nothing was going to happen (the police would not
come). And why wouldn't anything happen? On the contrary, nothing will happen
if you don't call 911.
But the finale is the best (or worst): "We
are being responsible with the expectations and with the protection of the
citizens. We have to evaluate this line of protection, *international
cooperation*, we have Cuban and Russian intervention and we don't want it".
Well, they are not being responsible for the protection of citizens. The
Venezuelan family that is stuck in the house of the example is being massacred
every day by the heavily armed criminals who broke in, and are carrying out
crimes against the human rights of the population.
If they don't want to call 911 (authorize 187#11 in the National Assembly)
that doesn't mean there isn't the neighborhood's Responsibility to Protect
(R2P) for the police to get in without the 911 call they irresponsibly aren't
doing. They are not the ones who should "evaluate international
cooperation" to determine whether or not police enter. IT IS NO LONGER A PROBLEM
OF SOVEREIGNTY BUT A PROBLEM OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
The sovereignty of States is subrogated when crimes are committed against
the human rights of a population. It is left aside when in fact it is known
that a deliberate extermination is taking place against people anywhere on the
planet. And in Venezuela it is fully proven. The attitude of the
politicians when refusing to give the authorization what it does is to hide the
responsibility of the nations to help Venezuela because it sends to
the world a message of a non-existent self-sufficiency. Because then the
neighborhood would say "if their political representatives say they can,
why should we risk it?" How many more deaths do they need to understand
it? Impossible more irresponsibility!
Venezuelans must understand that the application of Article 187, numeral 11
is merely accessory and that the international community has a moral and
political obligation to intervene, even if it has not been called upon to do
so, in response to the Principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P),
to stop the crimes fully defined in the Rome Statute from continuing to be
committed, that Nicolás Maduro Moros and his gang of criminals are committing
against Venezuelans, so Juan Guaidó and the National Assembly have not yet
fully understood this problem, subrogating it to the nationalist stupidity of
Gilber Caro or the condescending populism of the official opposition that
insists on hiding the seriousness of the problem in order to go to an election.
When we insist that Venezuelans decide, it's not on a simple whim. Given
the seriousness of what has happened in Venezuela, we believe that the
restitution of a minimum order in the country not only involves receiving
humanitarian aid from abroad in the form of medicines and food, but also in
order to rebuild Venezuela, as happened in Europe after the Second World War.
Everything will be needed here, from light bulbs to spare parts for
agricultural and industrial machinery. Everything was destroyed. And special
help will be needed in the reconstruction of new Armed Forces institutionally
destroyed by Castro's communism.
Therefore, this Consultation IS NOT TO AUTHORIZE 187#11 but to authorize
the liberation of Venezuela by force, in order to immediately prevent further
crimes against human rights by demanding that countries comply with R2P. 187#11
comes as a later consequence of that decision. Note the difference very well. So
it is NOT 187#11, it is R2P.
If the official opposition and its fanatical followers insist on continuing
to prescribe aspirin for cancer, distorting the clamor of Venezuelans, we will
continue to pay for it with more blood than they claim they do not want to
spill. We Venezuelans are already in a bloodshed problem, only it remains in
the hands of those who are responsible if more is spilled than should be for
ambitions of power, inexperience or simply stupidity.
Caracas, March 29,
2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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