By Luis Manuel Aguana
The office of the spokesman for the U.S. State
Department issued a statement on January 9, 2020 that went viral on social
networks in Venezuela. The official translation of this statement refers to
"Free and Fair Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela"
(see Global Public Affairs, US Departament of State, Free and Fair Presidential
and Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela, in https://www.state.gov/free-and-fair-presidential-and-parliamentary-elections-in-venezuela).
This statement has an important effect on Venezuela
after the tour of President-in-Charge Juan Guaidó to the United States. First
of all, nothing that this statement indicates is happening in Venezuela. There
have been no free and fair elections in our country since 1998, the year in
which Hugo Chávez was elected. As of 2004, the Venezuelan electoral system was
changed. Jorge Rodriguez as President of Hugo Chavez's CNE at the time of his
Presidential Revocation Referendum, and SmartMatic, the company chosen by the
CNE to count the votes of Venezuelans for that Referendum, were in charge from
then on of manipulating the results of each and every one of the elections that
have taken place since that date in Venezuela.
Since that history is very long and Venezuelans have a very short memory, I better refer you to the extraordinary political report that Dr. Genaro Mosquera Castellanos, Director of the Benjamin Franklin Shool of Government in the United States, professor and specialist in research based on statistical sampling and in the management of electoral and population data, carried out for the Original National Constituent Alliance, ANCO, and entitled "Informe Consulta Popular sobre la salida del régimen usurpador", and that given its transcendental importance we have decided to publish so that every Venezuelan can better understand the reasons we have to propose a Plebiscitary Popular Consultation in Venezuela as a solution to the political crisis (see report in Spanish in Consulta Popular sobre la salida del régimen usurpador, in http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2020/02/comunicado-anco-consulta-popular-sobre.html).
If after reading that report, which reminds us of
every fraudulent electoral process of the regime for 16 years to this date, and
you still do not recognize all the traps that the regime has done to
Venezuelans to stay in power, it is because you were just a schoolboy without
political memory. The report will help everyone understand why we cannot go to
a new election of any kind with this criminal regime in power.
Hence, the reference by the US State Department
spokesman to the Venezuelan electoral system is of paramount importance. The
statement begins with the following sentence: "A broadly acceptable, negotiated transitional government must be
responsible for overseeing elections”. The first question that comes to
mind is how can such a negotiated transitional government exist in the first
place without a cessation of usurpation? Negotiated with whom? Why does the
State Department talk about Presidential elections when the regime has rejected
such a possibility outright, putting forward the validity they have given to
the fraudulent election of Nicolás Maduro Moros on May 20, 2018?
So, they are clearly assuming a presidential election
after Nicolas Maduro's departure from power. Logic cannot indicate otherwise.
And this is confirmed by the repeated statements of official spokespersons from
the U.S. State Department indicating that they will not recognize another
election in Venezuela with Maduro in power. And most importantly, and for the
peace of mind of Venezuelans: that same speech supports the statements made by
President-in-Charge Juan Guaidó since last year but which now synchronize with
the position of the United States: "Guaidó reiterates that they will not
go to the polls while Maduro usurps power (see in Spanish Diario Las Américas, https://www.diariolasamericas.com/guaido-reitera-que-no-iran-comicios-mientras-maduro-usurpe-el-poder-n4183220).
All this puts us on one track: a "negotiated
transitional government" will have to be forced to oversee these elections
in the wonderland described in the State Department's statement, which has “A new, balanced, and independent National
Electoral Commission (CNE) – selected through the National Assembly …”, that
exists the “Reinstatement of all powers
and authorities of the National Assembly…”, and the elimination of “…all restrictions on individuals and
political parties to allow their free participation in presidential and
parliamentary elections. This includes protections for those who have fled the
country fearing for their safety and security, and the release of all those
arbitrarily detained, including political prisoners”.
One part that gives away that you have to get out of
the regime first is the following revealing sentence: “The former Maduro regime must not be allowed to dictate the content of
independent media actors …”. For
"the former Maduro regime " to exist, we have to get rid of the
criminals first. After that happens, then the statement indicates that the
United States and its partners would facilitate “the process for Venezuelan citizens anywhere in the world to exercise
their rights by voting in a free and fair presidential election from abroad”
and would provide “technical support
and/or funding, as appropriate, to assist the voter registration process” and
“…a team of highly regarded independent
electoral observers to begin work with the new CNE as soon as it is appointed”.
This would be wonderful. But first we have to get out
of Maduro and his narco-terrorist criminals. And that puts us in the first
frame then. If they don't get him out through the sanctions that have been
growing over time, when will we have that ideal electoral picture? Time is
running out and the situation of Venezuelans is getting worse. Guaidó promises
that "soon" Maduro will leave, because it is the only way that there
will be "free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections in
Venezuela," as the Americans say under the title of that statement.
If they manage to get him out through that pressure,
as indicated by journalist Casto Ocando in his recent article, which reveals
that "Russia secretly seeks a negotiated transition in Venezuela" (see
in Spanish Revelan que Rusia busca secretamente una transición negociada en
Venezuela, in https://primerinforme.com/index.php/2020/02/16/revelan-que-rusia-busca-secretamente-una-transicion-negociada-en-venezuela/) then
there would be nothing more to say. According to the press release, "The talks began after the announcement
of new sanctions by Washington, a maximum pressure campaign that seeks to
accelerate a change of government in Caracas, according to sources familiar
with the discussions between the two countries. Vladimir Putin's government is
said to have reacted with concern after the possibility that this week the U.S.
Treasury Department announced massive sanctions against the Russian oil company
Rosneft, for its participation in the extraction and distribution of Venezuelan
crude oil in the international market... "Russia would be willing to
withdraw support for Maduro in exchange for the new government recognizing its
interests in Venezuela, an idea that both Washington and interim President Juan
Guaidó are seriously considering....”.
This would be extraordinary news. But would Maduro and
the radical criminals be willing to leave just like that? If they leave, the
story ends and the ideal negotiated transition that the State Department
painted in its statement would begin, and this is where the river came in. But
what if they still don't leave? What if this is still not enough and time
consumes and strangles us more in this Castro-communist hell? Cuba has more
than 60 years of blockade with people who, while waiting, have already lost
their desire to continue fighting. How much longer will we have to put up with
malnutrition and more deaths in our hospitals? How much longer do the
politicians and the governments believe that the suffering of an entire people
can be extended? We Venezuelans are not willing to stand idly by. This has to
have a very short deadline, and we
mourners have to do something. That is what we are demanding through
the Popular Plebiscite Consultation.
With this mechanism we force an immediate outcome out
of the hands of the people in a determined and measured time, not when
"the exit is alone" because the regime "gave in". The
International Community cannot turn a blind eye to the mandate of an entire
people who decide their freedom, and ask for the help of the force of those who
can and have the duty agreed upon by United Nations resolutions to intervene
when there are crimes against humanity and a situation of humanitarian crisis
recognized by the entire planet. If the powers agree and strangle the regime,
that is fine with us. But if the regime refuses to leave in peace (which we
unfortunately believe because that has been the constant behaviour of these
criminals), we demand action commensurate with the size of the crime. Let's not
wait any longer to demand our participation and self-determination as a people
in this problem to decide our destiny through a Plebiscitary Popular
Consultation that will decide a humanitarian intervention in Venezuela
immediately…#ConsultaPopularPlebiscitariaYA
Caracas, February 18, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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