By Luis
Manuel Aguana
Will
Juan Guaidó, a faithful exponent of that youth who died on the
streets for a better Venezuela, be able to betray that in favor of
the worst of Venezuelan politics of the last 60 years, and who is
still alive and kicking in that National Assembly? If he is capable
of that betrayal, my dear friend would have been right and I would
have been wrong again - it is not the first time - but I would have
done so believing in the Venezuelan youth who have shed so much blood
for Venezuela....(see
Guaidó versus official
opposition
https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/guaido-versus-official-opposition.html).
So I ended a March note this
year trying to convince myself that I did not believe in the collapse
of the Guaidó interim presidency, because if anything good had
happened in Venezuela it was that this generation representing the
struggle of Venezuelan youth to end tyranny had been given all the
power and opportunity. Well, I must admit that I was wrong. But maybe
I would make the mistake again for the same reasons. The Ramos Allup,
the Rosales, the Zambrano, the Borges were stronger, they imposed on
that new generation a way of doing politics that we Venezuelans have
repudiated since long before Chávez arrived and the reason why that
coup plotter came to power. The politics of the lie, of the trap, of
the negotiated, of the money of corruption. And the results are
visible.
We have lost an entire year
and despair has begun to take hold. However, just as I believe that
the person holding the Presidency-in-Charge, Juan Guaidó, was
exhausted throughout 2019 for an endless number of reasons, what has
actually become a crisis is the very figure we chose on 23 January to
confront the tyranny of criminals who illegitimately hold power. And
if we want to change who we believe is responsible for not having
taken the corresponding decisions, we will be wrong again. In other
words, changing Guaidó without changing the mechanism for fighting
the regime will be completely ineffective and a monumental mistake.
Why do I affirm this? Let's see.
What
mechanism did the official opposition choose to leave the regime? A
President in Charge who, through a collegiate parliamentary
government that does not exist in the Constitution, without taking
into account anyone in the country, took the decisions and actions to
depose the regime. Without justifying the mistakes made in these 11
months, if the most experienced politician had been at the front, he
would have failed as Juan Guaidó failed. Everyone, including me,
asked for pears from a mango tree. We asked Guaidó to appoint a
Cabinet when that Statute and that unconstitutional parliamentary
government prevented him from doing so. While it is true that he was
able to rise to the presidency, he would not have gotten very far.
The same political leaders would have taken the floor where he could
stand. It was not a question of his having the courage to do so, as
has been mentioned. But he could have denounced it and provoked a
political crisis to change that. That's what you really have to
reproach him for as a young man, but that's another story now. It's
too late for that.
The
political leaders of the parties designed a very clumsy parapet,
which was impossible to function for the purposes for which it was
built. It worked if - and reluctantly, for those who did not want
Guaidó to be sworn in - for the International Community to close
ranks around the Venezuelan people, recognizing in that figure of the
President in Charge, the legitimate representative of the Venezuelans
before those peoples. That
advance cannot be lost because that was the only thing we won in
2019!
The
recognition was gained that there is a tyranny in Venezuela that must
be eliminated. That there is a cancer in Venezuela that must be
removed but it is not clear until now how to proceed with that. That
recognition is still an asset in favor of Venezuelans, whether or not
Juan Guaidó is in the Presidency-in-Charge. So the problem is not
Guiadó. I question the figure that was used because if something has
harmed us, it is that false belief that Guaidó, or whoever is taking
his place, is the President of something. What we should have is a
coordinator, a kind of head of a crisis team that allows itself to be
accompanied by the most qualified of the country in each necessary
area (military, diplomatic, social, political to mention some
important ones) with the UNIQUE AND EXCLUSIVE objective of expelling
from power the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros and his national and
international delinquents. And once that objective is achieved, it
will give way to a Provisional Government -where there would be a
President in Charge- that will lead us to free and authentic
elections. That crisis team WOULD NOT BE FOR GOVERNANCE because it
would not have the power for that, but to seek a solution for the
complete expulsion of the regime of power with the help of the
International Community. Do you see the difference?
When
an earthquake occurs, a natural tragedy of proportions, an executive
coordination of the crisis is created to immediately face the
problem. Specialized teams are created to bring law and order,
provide food and immediate medical attention to those affected and a
temporary roof for those left homeless. All this is assembled in
hours to face what happened until the situation normalizes. Well, we
Venezuelans must do something like that. We must create something
similar and that executive team, made up of that "person in
charge", who at heart is not President because he has no power,
must coordinate it until the situation in Venezuela normalizes.
And
that team is the one that must lead the actions, with the help of the
International Community that recognized our struggle, to expel Maduro
by the means that are necessary and take the country to a Provisional
Government. Who would be part of that team? Representatives of the
only legitimate Power recognized, the National Assembly, and
representatives of Civil Society of unquestionable ethics and morals.
This is not the first time that decisions based on this criterion
have been made in Venezuela. In 1993 the Congress of the Republic
appointed Senator Ramón J. Velásquez as President in Charge of the
Republic to conclude the term of then President Carlos Andrés Pérez,
without Dr. Velásquez being in the line of succession according to
the 1961 Constitution. This was reached by a political agreement that
took into consideration Senator Velásquez's impeccable record of
service and his unquestionable ethics and morals at the service of
the Nation, recognized by all Venezuelans.
This
was done precisely because the country was moved by the corruption
trial against the President of the Republic, and the best way to
normalize the country was agreed. Something like this must now be
reached where Article 233 cannot represent a sort of straitjacket
that implies that the next "President in Charge" will be
the Deputy chosen in the National Assembly as President of the
Assembly. In Venezuela there is no figure of "rotating"
presidencies, as the Magistrate Emerita, Dr. Blanca Rosa Mármol de
León, has explained. That brings a drunken fight for an empty
bottle, and it is already beginning to happen with the regime buying
the votes of Deputies for the next legislature that begins on January
5, 2020. The National Assembly should immediately abandon this
unconstitutional Statute for Transition and focus on seeking and
politically agreeing on the best Venezuelan, here or abroad, to lead
this crisis team and give it the legitimacy to conduct what is
necessary to get out of the problem. The international community
would immediately support him.
The earthquake that the
Government in Charge of Juan Guaidó is going through must give way
to that crisis team, if it can be given a name, to act on behalf of
all Venezuelans to propose a solution for the expulsion of the
regime. I already propose to that crisis team that within the
solutions to be studied, they present the Popular Plebiscite
Consultation, which we have already amply explained, and provide
information to the Government in charge of Juan Guaidó, without
detriment to other solutions based on the application of mechanisms
for the use of international force.
What
we, those of us who continue to worry about the future of the events
due to the weakening by corruption of the Government in Charge of
Juan Guaidó, wish in the end is that the same errors of 2019 that
have given tyranny more time to consolidate itself in power, using
the means that corruption gives it, will not be repeated. To change
Guaidó for another to do exactly the same, is the chronicle of an
announced failure. Corruption will always be the order of the day to
undermine the management of whoever comes. What you can't do is keep
doing the same thing and expect different results. That is the
"Einsteinian" definition of insanity. If Guaidó is not the
one who should lead the ship, as in fact we already believe many in
Venezuela, then we must proceed with a completely different mechanism
to continue the fight...
Caracas,
December 5, 2019
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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