By Luis Manuel Aguana
The picture went around the world. It was by
no means negligible for the press around the world to see a President trying to
get his country's Parliament over the fence while the military tried to prevent
it. What was not reflected in that photo, of course, was that those same
military men had already given him the free pass that the President in charge
did not accept because they would not let a Member of Parliament vetoed by the
regime pass with him. The final result was that neither of the two passed to the
Federal Legislative Palace last January 5, a date that will remain in the
history of Venezuela.
La foto del Presidente Encargado intentando
saltar la reja causó el impacto esperado: el titular principal fue que el
régimen había impedido el paso de los Diputados opositores, cosa que fue una
verdad a medias porque informaciones posteriores corroboraron que los Diputados
de las fracciones mayoritarias ya se encontraban en el Parlamento a la hora del
impasse de la reja, esperando al Presidente de la Asamblea para comenzar el
acto, y el doblemente investido Presidente Encargado y Presidente de la
Asamblea Nacional no entró al Palacio Federal Legislativo porque no le dio la
gana.
They had already prepared the scene in the
newspaper El Nacional from the day before, perhaps to mend the cloak of
something much more serious, which was none other than having
unconstitutionally accepted the deputies of the regime who had lost their
status as such to vote for a new directive that day. If the President entered
the Chamber, the session would have to be held, at the risk of the official
opposition losing the Directive because of the pile of money offered - and
accepted - to opposition Members. So this story has been
misplaced from the outset.
The opposition, by meeting outside the
Legislative Palace and ratifying Juan Guaidó as President of the Assembly and
President-in-Charge, put itself in a weak position that it obviously should
have evaluated previously. The regime put "its own Directive" in
opposition and now we are waiting for the TSJ of Baralt Avenue to decide which
of the two Directives will end up being the valid one. You can be sure that any
decision it makes will not be for the convenience of Venezuelans. But for now,
the official opposition has vetoed the use of the Federal Legislative Palace.
Don't you think it's strange how late the ex-convict's Supreme Court has been
able to pronounce itself definitively in favor of Parra? The green suitcase
still seems to be loose in the legislative corridors…«Cosas veredes, Sancho,
que farán fablar las piedras» (original Spanish), Don Quijote dixit.
But the picture of the President on the fence
had just that, media impact. The official opposition is no better off now than
it was before January 5th. The delay in achieving a definitive solution for
Venezuelans since the mantra was offered on 23E last year is beginning to burn
the hands of the official opposition. It is not enough to have "conserved"
the National Assembly's directive using a stratagem that is still not clear.
There must be concrete results from that for Venezuelans. It cannot be that the
problem that competes with hyperinflation and the serious food and welfare
crisis of the Venezuelan people is that Juan Guaidó and the G4 are in session
or not in the Federal Palace and the thugs of the regime are not letting them
in. That IS NOT THE PROBLEM. We are still waiting for an answer from that
opposition about what they are going to do NOW to get rid of this nightmare.
However, the first days of the week, we
Venezuelans woke up with another news item similar to the one about the fence
on January 5th. The President in charge, this time successfully jumped the
fence with an agenda completely unknown to everyone and that has been known
since his meetings with Colombian President Ivan Duque. Again, another media
fence, this time international. The big question is whether it will be the same
as the first failed attempt to jump. We Venezuelans have been asking ad nauseam
the President in charge to kill the snake in the head and meet face to face
with the only leader in the hemisphere who has openly extended his hand to us
to help us end this nightmare; and with enough power to solve the problem of
the Venezuelans, agreeing with him how to solve it: Donald Trump, President of
the United States of America.
Once again, a world of expectations is
unleashed, as happened on January 5 with the attempt to jump the first fence,
and which left the regime with the property papers of the Federal Legislative
Palace and a new Directive adjusted to its measure. Juan Guaidó is left with
only the letter from the International Community and his true status as the
legitimate President in charge that he still holds constitutionally since
January 23, 2019.
Will Guaidó try to "agree" or
convince new dialogues, negotiated solutions or elections with the criminals
who hold power in Venezuela, with the countries of the International Community
after the most important have repeated to him countless times that elections
cannot be held with Maduro in power? Or rather, will Guaidó discuss the
alternatives of eviction using multinational force to stop the crimes against
humanity that the regime is committing every day in our country? If this is so,
he is doing it a year late, but we congratulate him for finally " falling
for it" as was expressed in the old days.
And if at last your agenda includes
constitutional solutions to overcome the crisis that include the power of force
that can only be applied by the International Community, we formally request
that you put forward the constitutional call for the people to make a statement
through a Popular Consultation that restores the validity of the Constitution,
as opposed to the electoral solutions that the European socialists are
shouting. The reasons have been explained extensively in my previous note (see To
the International Community: A Popular Consultation is better than an Election,
in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/to-international-community-popular.html).
And if, as my dear friend Enrique Colmenares
Finol, National Coordinator of ANCO, says, Juan Guaidó manages to get Donald
Trump to declare to the world something like this: "the United States is
completely in agreement that Venezuelans should make a democratic statement to
define their destiny through a citizen consultation that defines Maduro's
presence in power, and we will be the guarantor that whatever the people of Venezuela
decide will be fulfilled", his jump from the other fence will have been
successful. That would be more than enough for the citizens to make a massive
pronouncement all over the world, with the certain hope that we will have a
sure recovery of our majority will.
If Guaidó doesn't bring something equal or
greater forcefulness than that, the jump from the other fence will have been as
useless as the first one, and it will be preferable that it stays on the other
side because it will come to dance a new year of delay of the tragedy that we
live, with the solution that they cook electorally with the regime. If he does
not come up with a convincing answer for the Venezuelans, he will do us the
great favour of moving away and letting us find it…
Caracas, January 22, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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