By Luis Manuel Aguana
After the National Assembly made official the
cohabitation with Nicolás Maduro's regime with the approval of the Agreement of
Tuesday October 1st, the former Ambassador to the UN, Diego Arria, published in
his twitter account the following message: "This reality places all of us to
choose: Break or continuity" (see https://twitter.com/Diego_Arria/statuses/1180212517672570881). I am sure Dr. Arria was very clear in the depth of the short but
forceful expression "Rupture or Continuity". But what I am most sure
of is that Venezuelans have not yet come to understand its profound meaning.
And I say this not only because of the little echo that tweet received, but
because Arria has been saying the same thing about the same actors for years,
and Venezuelans still keep hitting each other with the same wall, getting the
same results, Einstein dixit.
During the 2012 primaries, Diego Arria
publishes a wedge for the closing of his presidential pre-candidate campaign
with these words: "Venezuelans, I
feel compelled to speak to you with absolute frankness: I have fundamental
differences with those who participate in the primary process. They think it is
possible to govern with the powers kidnapped by the regime. I don't. I
represent the rupture. It's now or never. Vote for me. In my hands the victory
will not be lost." (see in Spanish Diego Arria: La Ruptura, in https://youtu.be/W-y_9AfVoB0).
But the Venezuelan opposition did not believe
in Arria or all of us who thought at the time that the regime would impede
change, as it did, remaining in power. Venezuelans trusted that Henrique
Capriles would defend the victory. I won't remember Capriles' sad expression of
telling us to dance salsa and stay in the houses "because there would be
deaths," when the people demanded that he defend the votes. More than 7
very long years have passed since then, with not only more deaths, but with the
famine and exodus that followed. If any lesson had to be learned from that time
to this part is that it is not possible to tolerate the regime, but much less
to govern with the powers kidnapped by them, as Diego Arria said premonitorily
in 2012.
And who participated in those primaries that
thought it was possible to govern with the kidnapped powers? Surprise! The same
people who approved the agreement of October 1, 2019, which seeks to establish
what they agreed to in Barbados and continued in Caracas, and which goes
exactly in the same line of co-governing with the criminals who have destroyed
Venezuela, namely, among others: 1) Simultaneous resignation of Maduro and
Guaidó to their respective positions of "Presidents"; 2)
Establishment of a Transitional Government shared with the regime at 50%; 3)
Incorporation of the deputies of the PSUV to the National Assembly (which has
already been fulfilled), followed by the dismantling of the Constituent of the
regime (which has not happened, nor do I believe will happen); 4) Negotiated
agreement of new Rectors for the National Electoral Council-CNE, which includes
a supposed "purging" of the Electoral Registry as an attractive bait
for the population, in an attempt to convince Venezuelans that the process will
be clean.
When that Agreement of the National Assembly
speaks of Transition, IT IS THAT TRANSITION OF COGOVERNMENT WITH THE REGIME to
which it refers, not of the Transitional Government established in the mantra
of January 23 without the delinquents of Maduro. Watch out for that! How I
would like Juan Guaidó to disprove this.
That's what's coming down on us Venezuelans.
And since it is already an Agreement of the National Assembly, what can be
expected then is elections. I will not bother you again by saying that the
counter to this barbarity is to call a Popular Plebiscite Consultation because
I have already explained it in previous notes. This would be a proposal that
can be accepted or not. What I want to mean is whether we Venezuelans will
continue to make comparisons to those who continue to insist on governing with
criminals. That is my concern.
And the issue cannot be dismissed with the
common ground that the alternative is a civil war or a military coup. No. The
alternative is whether or not Venezuelans choose the continuity of this
governing garbage or definitively break with it. Rupture or Continuity. If we
decide to continue accepting Political Agreements with tyranny or fight against
it. If we group around those who want to continue cohabiting with the regime or
all of us group against those who want to end it. It's
that simple.
Since 2012, Venezuelans have been stumbling
around because there has never been a clear awareness of this problem. Diego
Arria represented, as he said in that wedge, the rupture with that reality from
that moment, and that has been verified as our current magnified reality. Few
Venezuelans have been as clear about what was going to happen in Venezuela as
he was. No other pre-candidate established it so clearly even though he had
consolidated political organizations that supported them. But the direct and
true discourse of experience was not sold. The youth and charming of a
candidate who folded his legs at the first sign of change were preferred. We
have paid for that error in the 2012 primaries and we Venezuelans continue to
pay dearly for it.
Now again Venezuela faces as yesterday a
reality. What will we do? Will we sleep with the criminals in a new election
"to avoid more deaths", Capriles dixit
2012? Or will we begin to believe that there will be - on the contrary - many
more dead if we allow criminals to co-govern Venezuela? In which leaderships
will we begin to believe and continue to definitely get out of tyranny and
regain freedom? I do not say that this will be easy and that our serious
problems will end tomorrow, but I assure you that it will be much more
difficult if we do it with traitors and with people who have not shown that
they speak clearly to the country. That's why from now on I sign up, as I
scored in the 2012 primary for the Rupture. And I think Venezuela should do the
same at this time.
Caracas, October 5, 2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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