By Luis Manuel Aguana
Too many signals to be ignored. Open and covert
chavismo wants to return in its many facets to government using transition,
with the help of the official opposition. No, don't be surprised. It is not an
attitude of political apartheid that I am trying to apply here. It is only the
warning of one who, being an external observer, warns that one cannot compose a
country by using those who were directly responsible for its destruction. There
is no such thing as democratic chavismo'. That conceptually is an oxymoron,
which according to the RAE means: "1.
m. Ret. Combination, in the same syntactic structure, of two words or
expressions of opposite meaning that originate a new sense, as in a thunderous silence".
However, the official opposition, which is what
I have called in this tribune all those political factors that still insist on
making opposition by dancing close to the dictatorship, because of the fact
that in Venezuela "there can be no transition" without the
government, insist on trying to coerce the chavismo -the thesis of the
authoritarian enclaves of Henry Ramos Allup- in the "Transitional
Government" phase of the famous trilogy "Cessation of the Usurpation-Government of Transition-Free
Elections". From here I responsibly warn you: the best way to buy
yourself a certain failure during Juan Guaidó's transition is to get Chavismo
into any phase of the process. And I have the sour impression that it's not
free. Chavismo has amassed so much money that you can buy not just a seat in
what's coming but the entire Transitional Government if you propose it. And it's not just a
saying...
And the political platform they are using was provided by the MUD in its
opposition re-launch, with the name Frente Amplio (so broad that it includes
Chavismo) Venezuela Libre in March 2018, with the two acts carried out in the
Aula Magna of the UCV where, desperately seeking reconnection with the country,
they bathed in civil "society" tailing chavismo light in the
re-launch party (see Two acts, the same purpose: the re-launching of the
MUD, in http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/two-acts-same-purpose-re-launching-of.html).
Without going very far and illustrating the previous point, in the act held
in the Concert Hall of the UCV on February 14, where several unions asked the
President Juan Guaidó to install a "tripartite table" to rescue the
salary scales and improve working conditions. (see news in Spanish in http://efectococuyo.com/principales/trabajadores-piden-mesa-tripartita-a-guaido-para-abrir-dialogo-social/) some
representatives of the workers presented to the public in that act are an
active part of that chavismo whose voracity destroyed the institutions that now
say they want to rescue, as in the case of the Caracas Metro, which is an
example that I know perfectly well. Voluntad Popular as a party organizes that
event within that Frente Amplio and gives the Chavismo, covered up by a
struggle to take out Maduro, the union struggle without realizing that it is
putting the rope around the future neck of the President in Charge, how about
that? Impossible greater stupidity.
If that is the example of the rest of the unions and workers of the
organizations presented at that meeting, the government of Juan Guaidó would be
operating on a time bomb during the transition. With that alone, the
Transitional Government would be in a labor chaos. What would it cost the
Chavismo unions to destabilize the government of Juan Guaidó? Nothing, if they
give them the opening right now as they are doing.
What should happen is that the authorities designated by Juan Guaidó in
each institution are capable of guaranteeing free union elections at the
immediate moment of the "Cessation of usurpation" and that there
exists a legitimate representation of the workers in each one of those
institutions, something that has been impossible since Chávez and Maduro came
to power, stealing the elections of the workers in each Company and State
Institution. That is why these unions are as they are now. What is there is a
nest of delinquents and thieves who have taken the workers' money and nobody
has been able to control it. The only way to rescue that labor peace so that
there is stability of the transitional government is to put in its just
dimension the representation of the workers.
What is the strategy now for those who feel lost because the people decided
to expel them from the government, giving Guaidó massive support and an
inevitable transition? To infiltrate and make unviable what is to come. And
they are doing it with the little help of those who believe that without
chavismo one cannot govern. It is better for Juan Guaidó and the G4 of the
National Assembly to reconsider this macro-political decision. Chavismo cannot
be in the transition if it is not to make the country ungovernable and return
what the Venezuelans have cost them in the streets. We would replicate in a
flash the experience of Nicaragua and Daniel Ortega with any representative of
that chavismo who at this moment is financially prepared to assault power
again. And there are a few,
beginning with Rafael Ramírez...
An example of the implementation of this inclusive policy of chavismo in
the Transitional Government is represented by Stalin González of UNT:
"Transitional Government in Venezuela will include chavistas and
military" (see news in https://www.cubanet.org/noticias/stalin-gonzalez-gobierno-transicion-venezuela-incluira-chavistas-militares/): "We do think that Chavismo and the military should be part of that
transitional government (...) We have to give space to Chavismo, which is not
Maduro, because there has to be political stability," Gonzalez told the
British agency. The transitional regime means: laws of forgiveness and
oblivion, law of end point, truth commissions, reparation of victims, special
processes -mediatization of justice- which is transitional justice, and support
and acceptance of what are called authoritarian enclaves, which are the
institutions of the old regime, to point them out in some way, that one would
fit into a new regime. That is, Military High Command, Supreme Court, etc.,
etc., etc." (see
Ramos Allup talks about the "transition", in https://youtu.be/zzudMxJGnVU, min 0:52). How unfortunate to see a young man
like Gonzalez put on the wrinkled skin of an old dinosaur, instead of having
ideas for renewal and someone of his generation.
But the really terrifying thing about this policy in action was what
Francisco Sucre of Voluntad Popular expressed on February 12 in representation
of... Juan Guaidó! at the moment of meeting with the Italian High Command in
Rome: "Francisco Sucre, delegate sent Rome in representation of the
president of the National Assembly Juan Guaidó, maintained this Tuesday that
the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, can participate in eventual new
elections in the country. "Mr. Maduro is free to stand in those elections,
not as president in office but as former president of the Republic. If his party
nominates him, of course we accept him," the parliamentarian said during a
press conference. "We do not want to replace one intolerance with another
intolerance," he stressed (see in Spanish Francisco Sucre: Maduro could
take part in a possible new election, in which he would have the right to vote.
http://talcualdigital.com/index.php/2019/02/12/francisco-sucre-maduro-podria-participar-en-unas-eventuales-nuevas-elecciones/).
I'd really like to know what
the President in charge of these statements thinks.
Could it be that no one has informed Francisco Sucre that Maduro is
convicted to spend 18 years and three months in prison for the crime of Own Corruption
and Legitimation of Capitals, has dual nationality and is being pointed out for
drug trafficking by the DEA and the Vice President of the United States (see
Pence: DEA Investigations point to Maduro's narco-dictatorship, in https://www.diariolasamericas.com/eeuu/pence-investigaciones-la-dea-apuntan-la-narcodictadura-maduro-n4171128). Could it be that no one has told
Francisco Sucre that MADURO is not nor was he president of the republic, much
less former president, because the 2013 and 2018 elections were a fraud? Maduro
CANNOT PARTICIPATE in any election or for councilman because he must be in jail
by then. The cases of Gonzalez and Sucre were the subject of special attention
of my friend Antonio Sanchez Garcia in his extraordinary article today Tiranía,
Crisis y Transición at https://www.lapatilla.com/2019/02/17/tirania-crisis-y-transicion-por-antonio-sanchez-garcia-sangarccs/
which I highly recommend.
So, the signals that are being sent to us from the official opposition
before starting the trilogy are very worrying, and impossible to ignore. If
anything must be accelerated, besides the "Cessation of Usurpation"
that all of Venezuela eagerly awaits, it is the liberation of Juan Guaidó from
all partisan ties, as used to be done with the Presidents of democracy so that
they would have the freedom to guarantee to all Venezuelans a government of
stable equilibrium. If Guaidó is still a prisoner of the fauna that we have
described, let him not continue repeating the trilogy because a transition with
chavismo is only an oxymoron...
Caracas, February 17,
2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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