By Luis Manuel Aguana
I wanted to stay calm and not write anything
about Juan Guaidó's tour until it was over, but it's not going to be possible.
I almost eat my fingers to keep from touching the keyboard after seeing him
kneel in Spain at the Puerta del Sol, in horrifying memory of Hugo Chavez and
his crucifix, asking the Venezuelans to forgive him for the atrocities
committed. But we had to wait. The tour was not over. However, instead of
boarding the plane to the United States, he decided to go to Canada.
Perhaps, I said to myself, Canada is the
prelude to the real reason for the jump from the other fence, the United States
(see The jump of the other fence, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_399.html) But no! We received the regrettable news that "During a press conference held after the meeting with Champagne,
Guaidó approved the meetings that the Canadian government has held in recent
months with the Cuban authorities to try to unblock the Venezuelan crisis and at the same time denied that there
was any possible meeting with Donald Trump". (see in Spanish
2001, en http://www.2001.com.ve/en-la-agenda/221726/guaido-aprueba-las-reuniones-de-canada-y-cuba-para-resolver-la-crisis-venezolana.html) (our underline).
In my opinion, that pitiful statement killed with the feet what they
once wanted to do with their hands, and from two different sides: a shot in the
heart, finishing off the tour with one in the head. It gives us Venezuelans a
shot in the heart when it tells everyone that it plans to seek negotiations -
another table, then - but this time with the country that has invaded us and
now has a seat on the regime's Council of Ministers. Doesn't the Colombian experience
tell them anything?
That is to say, that instead of making a tour to urgently plan with the
International Community - read the most influential and powerful - the eviction
of the regime and its allies from our country, we are beginning to understand
that it was to seek arrangements - again - with those who are exhausting us,
but this time through different channels. Is that why Juan Guaidó jumped the
other fence? What a disappointment! In my opinion, and for all intents and
purposes, as far as the interests of Venezuelans are concerned, that tour ended
at the same moment that Guaidó expressed that statement to the world.
And it's not that we have "something against Guaidó" as some
people insist on saying. It's not about Guaidó! "Desguaidoseamos" the
speech a long time ago (see “Desguaidoseando” the speech, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_34.html). The fact is that the character who holds that
position owes us Venezuelans an explanation. As I said in that note, Guaidó IS
THE ONLY ONE RESPONSIBLE for being able to do something to alleviate the
situation of millions of Venezuelans, having assumed the responsibility of
President-in-Charge. It is not that we put ourselves in the position of
"poor guy, he has made an enormous effort" to fight against this
situation. No. I put myself in the position of demanding results because it is
my right to do so and it is a matter of responsibility.
What has happened in Venezuela is so serious that anything that comes
after it must take into consideration learning this hard lesson that has cost
and continues to cost many Venezuelan lives. Guaidó has been accompanied on his
tour by the delinquents of Cucutazo and "ambassadors" that no one can
explain what they are doing there. Don't we have the right to be suspicious?
However, many see what has happened on this tour in a superficial way only
because of the support offered on the streets of Madrid. ANY one of our
legitimate representatives as a people devastated by this tragedy so great and
so evident to the world would have been acclaimed in the way Juan Guaidó was
received.
What would be left to do immediately - I insist - to anyone with that
investiture who would be hurt by what happens in his country after escaping as
he did? (and I'm not saying that Guaidó is not in pain.) Running off to see who
he can find so that TOMORROW he can help solve the suffering of so many people!
That's what anyone would do. Some might say that I am being petty in my
assessment. Well, if that's what I have to do, I accept it, just like in my
long years of executive practice in various management positions, I have to
accept as a boss when some decision turned out not to be to the liking of the
people under my responsibility. Successful results always came first for the
stability of the people and the corporation that had given me the responsibility.
RESULTS were required of me. I was not told "poor guy, he made a huge
effort". No. At the time of my evaluation if there were no results there
were consequences. That's why I had to train more and work more, to do better
and better. They call that
experience...
And that's the dilemma we're facing here. We have a whole country one
year waiting for results from Juan Guaidó and his team. Those are the people
there in charge of strategy and action. And so far what we have seen as a
result of all the international aid received is the main person responsible
asking for forgiveness as Chavez did, after a year of suffering of the
population, having been given the greatest national and international support
that any politician in the opposition has ever had.
There were voices with seasoned experience such as that of former
Ambassador Diego Arria who offered to help Guaidó organize an Arria Formula at
the United Nations so that the world's most important political forum, the UN
Security Council, could discuss possible alternatives to immediately resolve
the Venezuelan crisis. Even Dr. Arria offered in an interview with PanAm Post
to return to the country with other important personalities accompanying the
President in charge, to force a situation of edge with the regime (see in
Spanish Diego Arria dispuesto a volver a Venezuela en avión con Guaidó, en https://youtu.be/PWhH2H-5w2k).
All of that was dismissed. It is impossible that all the suggested
alternatives are incompatible with any solution that the Guaidó team wants to
give to the crisis. How could a Formula Arria be incompatible with solving our
situation? Even Russia has just used it to air the issue of chemical weapons in
Syria! But Guaidó and his team had the nerve to dismiss that. What can we
Venezuelans think? Guaidó decides not to travel to the United States, our
greatest international ally in resolving the crisis, nor to meet with President
Trump, nor to sit at the United Nations to speak at a Formula Arria on the ONLY
stage in the world where they can authorize formal forceful action against
these criminals.
We Venezuelans will have to evaluate after this tour is over whether the
net results were positive to alleviate our tragedy, regardless of how inflated
the representatives of the official opposition come back saying that they ate
it and that tomorrow Maduro will leave in another "Operation
Freedom", or the well-known story that we will get out of this with
elections. Some of us will continue to work tirelessly on alternatives that
directly summon the People's Sovereignty as the only one capable of deciding
the destiny of the Venezuelans, who sooner or later will end up imposing
themselves, because stubborn reality will end up discovering that the King of
the story is naked and has nothing on his balls…
Caracas, January
28, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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