By Luis Manuel Aguana
I described the political situation at the
end of 1824 in the Republic created by the Liberator, the Great Colombia,
before the separation of the brother countries, Colombia and Venezuela (see A
grandcolombian solution, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/a-grandcolombian-solution.html). This may need to be repeated many times given the delicate political
situation in the Venezuela of 2020. The main current of the political parties
aimed to backtrack on independence - believe it or not - by wanting to return
to Spain; the second current promoted a federation between the New Granada and
Venezuela; and the minority still supported the GrandColombian project of El
Libertador. What finally prevailed was the separation of our countries, as the
political solution that was sheltered in the hearts of Paez and Santander. No
one gave a penny for Bolivar's grandiose project, and for what he fought until
his death in Santa Marta.
Perhaps if the GrandColombian union had been
asked what they thought should be done after so much bloodshed, things might
have been different. I think that if it had been possible to consult the people
about that separation, many people would have wondered if it was easier or more
difficult to rebuild an entire nation destroyed by war, united or separated,
and the result would have been surprising. Perhaps it could have been sold to
the Grandcolombians at that time that a united future was more promising. Well,
the politicians of that time decided the matter with the blood spilled by both
peoples during the years of Independence. There was no other way to do it at
that time, and the rest is history.
The present generations of Venezuelans and
Colombians have the great advantage of a common history. Of learning from the
mistakes we have made separately so as not to make them each on his own side.
It has been said in Colombia that until the problem of Venezuela is resolved,
the problem of Colombia will not be resolved. Today I can add to that the
reverse statement: until the problem in Colombia is resolved, we Venezuelans will
not see a definitive solution to the problem in Venezuela. I dared to say in
that note that the size of the crisis we are suffering requires a genius like
that of El Libertador, who was definitely our unitary factor, and that between
both countries we must formulate a joint solution to do what is necessary to
dismantle the criminal and terrorist mafia that is attacking our nations. That
although both nations have been politically separated in 1830, problems are
still common on different scales and require concerted solutions, learning from
each other's mistakes.
In view of the above, Colombians made our
mistake by changing their electoral system, accepting in their legislation the
figure of the so-called electronic vote in 2004, through Law 892 of the Congress
of Colombia. In 2011, the Colombian Congress approved the Statutory Law 1475,
which reaffirmed the error of the electronic vote, and introduced the component
of biometric identification in the electoral system, opening the same Pandora's
box that was opened in Venezuela with the famous "captahuellas".
Although electronic voting has not yet been
fully implemented, the Democratic Center party proposes the implementation of "virtual voting so that citizens can dispense
with face-to-face voting" taking an untested system to the next level
of danger (see in Spanish the Alberto López Núñez’s note in El Nacional, Un
error suicida, https://www.elnacional.com/opinion/un-error-suicida/).
As mentioned by Alberto López Núñez in his excellent note, at the
request of my dear and disappeared grandcolombian friend, Antonio Nicolás
Briceño, on December 20, 2013, I presented to various political personalities
in Colombia the dangers that democracy was facing in their country with
legislation that established electronic voting in Colombia, indicating that
they were in time to modify the laws that had introduced it, explaining how
this trap developed in Venezuela, where the elimination of manual scrutiny by
statistical verification by law had been the key to bringing the will of
Venezuelans to the cemetery. Unfortunately, it seems that I did not explain
well enough or did not convey to Colombian politicians, with sufficient
clarity, the seriousness and importance of addressing this cancer in its early
stages in the institutional body of Colombia, to the point that
parliamentarians from the Centro Democrático party are proposing the approval
of a variant of the same cancer.
In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías was able to advance what he had advanced
in the systematic destruction of democratic institutions because he had a
demolishing tool from the moment when we Venezuelans in the streets had forced
him to go to a recall referendum: an electronic system to manufacture votes,
put at the service of the interests of international Castro-communism, and
built especially to make them perpetuate in the government from the year 2004.
To propose the sophistication of that implementation in Colombia is to commit
suicide, as Alberto López Núñez rightly titles his article. And someone has to
repeat it, as I do here, and especially to the party of the main enemy of the
communists in Colombia, former President Alvaro Uribe Vélez.
Since that time in Venezuela we have advanced in our struggle to repeal
this electoral machinery of the regime, even after the tyranny, and although we
have not yet changed the electoral system, we have managed to show the world
that such change is necessary immediately after recovering democracy and
freedom. Outreach efforts have been made to alert countries about this
laboratory cancer built to penetrate the continent's democracies.
I invite you to see an extraordinary sample of the investigation that
has been made of this disease with evident cases of electoral fraud committed
using electronic means in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and the Philippines, in
the video “Dangerous Connections, a story
behind the electronic vote” (see in Spanish in https://youtu.be/MTeSO8wjJVc), some of which
have a common protagonist: the company Smartmatic, a monster created by the
regime of Hugo Chavez and which has managed to sneak into several Latin
American countries, including, suspiciously, Colombia. This video is part of a
documentary series made by Guillermo Salas, the standard-bearer of this
struggle for the reestablishment of a fair, authentic and transparent electoral
system in Venezuela. Given the magnitude of this plague, which is surprisingly
still unknown to many Latin American politicians, we have had to open this
struggle beyond our borders.
A fundamental advance achieved on June 13, 2018 for Venezuela was the
sentence of the Supreme Court of Justice in exile, which declared "NULL
AND INAPPLICABLE as of this date the use of the AUTOMATED VOTING AND SCRUTINY
SYSTEM for the election of positions of popular representation of the public
powers, as well as for the holding of referendums, in the terms set forth in
Article 295.5 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela"
(see full Sentence
in Spanish in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2018/06/tribunal-supremo-de-justicia-declara.html).
We consider this Sentence to be historic, the product of the efforts of
fighters for an authentic electoral system in Venezuela and whom I am honored
to accompany, and where the figure of Dr. Adriana Vigilanza García, its main
promoter, stands out. This legal piece is a lesson of immediate application for
any Latin American country that wishes to know how to face the damages that the
electronic vote has caused in Venezuela, and as a sample of what can and must
be done, even when this evil has begun to be introduced in the institutionality
of our nations. I strongly recommend Colombian legislators to read it and proceed to
invalidate as soon as possible the electronic vote in their legislation while
they have the possibility to do so.
If in its next presidential electoral process, Colombia falls into the
hands of international Castro-communism as a consequence of these having taken
over its electoral system, Venezuela will suffer the consequences, even if by
that time we have gotten rid of Nicolas Maduro Moros' regime. And whether we
have done so or not, if Colombians do not abolish the electronic vote from
their electoral system, we will run the permanent danger in Venezuela of
aggravating our own situation with the continued onslaught of elements of the
international left that seek to seize power by way of a manipulated vote in
Colombia through electronic means. Never as in the past has our destiny been
closer. Let us proceed, then, if we no longer have the political-territorial
unity that El Libertador created for us, at least if we have a common criterion
for a grandcolombian survival. At least that is what we owe to the Father of
our Nations…
Caracas, September 6,
2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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