By Luis Manuel Aguana
I'm a deep admirer of Morris West's work.
Perhaps for the younger ones I refer you to the Wikipedia address so that you
can get to know him, look for his work and read it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_West). For the older ones like me we enjoyed in our youth his extraordinary
novels like "The shoes of the Fisherman", and his last and masterful
"Eminence" where many say that before his death he predicted the
coming of an Argentinean Pope. But West's novel that had the most impact on me
was "The Clowns of God ", of which I made a political reference in
2012 for the elections of that year. (see in Spanish Los Bufones de Dios, en http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2012/02/los-bufones-de-dios.html), reference I will make in this note but for other reasons of equal
importance.
“The
Clowns of God", tells the vision of a
Pope, about what would happen after the atomic destruction of the world by the
powers. The Pope tries to communicate his vision to everyone through a Papal
Encyclical but is forced to abdicate and is interned in a monastery with a vow
of silence. Fundamentally, the Pope's account and his Encyclical did not try to
argue that the powers were flying the world to pieces, that was taken for
granted. The Pope's visions of West's novel deepened what humanity had to do,
not to avoid the hecatomb, but to prepare to survive it. That's the brilliance
of the approach. I will call that attitude The West Effect. That is, in the
face of the inevitability of an evil process, you don't have to worry about
avoiding it, but rather worry about preparing to survive it and beat its
consequences.
After asking Juan Guaidó for his resignation -and also recommending what
to do-, denouncing the mutual larcenies of the regime and its opposition,
supporting the deaf ears of those who do not want the people to speak out, and
through a Popular Plebiscite Consultation indicating the path we should follow,
we have before us an unstoppable and inevitable process of negotiation and
electoral cohabitation, probably with the approval of all the opposing factors
of the country. Will that solve the problem of the Venezuelans? We don't think
so. That's like trying to survive cancer and forget about it by taking aspirin.
We must then prepare for
what is to come.
The first thing that we will face will be the electoral current of some
opposition parties that united with the narcoterrorist regime will name some
Rectors of the CNE, if they reach a convenient agreement to the parts. But if
they do not, the criminals of Miraflores will end up submitting the case to the
National Assembly and will end up referring the case to the Supreme Court of
Justice of the convict of Baralt Avenue. But what we will not be saved from in
2020 is an election with a CNE of the regime with some opposition parties,
starting with Juan Guaidó participating; and be careful and if not also with
the participation of many others who so far we do not imagine and who say they
are radical opposition.
That will give an aura of legitimacy to the process and that is
precisely what Maduro wants: to send the perception that the next National
Assembly that begins in 2021 is legitimate, being quite the opposite when its
sustenance base is as irritating as the regime's own Constituent National
Assembly.
The big question is: will Venezuelans give legitimacy to these elections
with our participation, even if it is unanimous opposition participation, with
Maduro in power? To the question that Guaidó was asked in the interview with El
País de España (see in Spanish Crisis Política
en Venezuela https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/12/15/america/1576427053_816944.html) "Q. Do you study the possibility of one election without
fulfilling the other two variables? (i.e. Cessation of usurpation and Transitional
Government) A. We have to have free elections. Without a new CNE there is no
free choice. The big dilemma is: is it possible to have the
re-institutionalization and the guarantee of a presidential election with
Maduro in Miraflores? That is an ongoing debate”. Guaidó
is wrong to say that without a new CNE there are free elections. Please! The
CNE does not condition that! What conditions free elections is the effective
Cessation of the Usurpation that has not taken place. And if Guaidó and his
people are still debating that, it is better that they resign as we have indeed
requested. That question alone elucidates the problem of Venezuela.
Then, as it is already a fact that
we will see ourselves facing elections with the regime in 2020, repeating in a
worse version in 2019, we must forget ourselves as the civil society of these
representatives to start working on something new. And you will say, what do
you mean something new? And here I will speak to you as the Pope of the
Encyclical of the West novel: organize ourselves as citizens for when the bombs
begin to fall. The first approximation is Article 333 of the Constitution:
"...every citizen invested or citizen invested or not invested with
authority will have the duty to collaborate in the re-establishment of its
effective validity" because the constitution ceased to be observed by an
act of force, not only by the criminals who govern us but also for those who
should have done so because they are "invested with authority". From
here on, anything goes, starting by ignoring those elections and moving
accordingly.
Each Community, each Municipality,
each State, each Civil Society organization, each University, each Church of
any faith, each union of workers and businessmen, each personality with
influence, everyone, will have to pronounce themselves for a solution, if they
do not agree with the political solution of living with Maduro and his
delinquents, and those who call themselves politicians will have to fight for
it. At the forefront of that struggle should be their natural and legitimate
leaders, passing over those who have persistently deceived us. If that critical
social mass does not express itself openly and forcefully, we will be defeated
by those who have used politics to enrich themselves. We are not willing to
remain calm and if we cannot stop what is coming we can begin to organize for
what is to come.
In West's
novel this was expressed, before the bombs began to fall, in the creation and
multiplication throughout the world of communities with autonomy of life with
sufficient capacity to provide for themselves the basic elements for their
subsistence. Without yet reaching that extreme (which in one way or another in
some parts of the country is being reached out of obligation) and before the
dissolution of the state as we know it, the resounding rejection of a way of
doing politics that all Venezuelans despise, will achieve the common agreement
necessary for a new form of civil resistance that will lead us to a solution in
which we all remember. We are already working on it before the West Effect
begins...
Caracas, December 16, 2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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