By Luis Manuel Aguana
In what can be considered the
largest hostage kidnapping situation in the world, the execution of one of the
hostages, Councilman Fernando Albán, was reported last Monday, October 8. Given
the characteristics of this particular hostage, an important political leader
of one of the largest parties of the official opposition, the antennas of the
entire planet focused on the characteristics of this crime that the regime
wants to report as suicide. But there is one rule of the regime that we should
already know so as not to lose the north of the country's situation: one
scandal always covers another, and this will be covered by the next one, which
will probably be more serious and more macabre.
I have stated over and over again in
successive notes that in Venezuela there is a kidnapping situation and that the
hostages are all Venezuelans to a greater or lesser degree. Consequently, the
treatment that should be given to what is happening should be that of a gang of
heavily armed criminals who have kidnapped the entire country and who will not
give up spaces or cease to be in control until a superior external force
appears and negotiates the delivery of the hostages with the restitution of
their freedom. The difference here is that the negotiation to release the
hostages has not yet begun because there is an erroneous characterization of
what is happening in Venezuela, with the belief that a situation of indefinite
coexistence can be agreed with the kidnappers.
That being the case, absolutely all
Venezuelans, to a greater or lesser extent and until the negotiation to free
ourselves begins, we have to understand each other with the criminals, as would
happen with anyone who is inside a bank during a robbery and the criminals
decide to take the people inside the premises as hostages. And since the formal
negotiation has not begun, the hostages are still being killed. So far what has
happened is that the kidnappers have been identified by encircling them through
personal sanctions in the hope that they will leave the hostages but securing
them inside the country without any negotiating approach that could depose the
hostage situation.
Now, in the midst of this
kidnapping, the criminals decide to execute a hostage to demonstrate their
control of the situation, before the scandalized gaze of the world. In the same
way there are other hostages dying every day for lack of medicines and
treatments that can only be given with the permission of the kidnapper: the
kidney patients, those who need treatment for cancer, those who need some
medicine that the regime refuses to send from abroad, the children who are born
with problems that cannot be treated and who are dying every day like flies in
hospitals and maternity hospitals all over the country. These victims are not
as visible but they are being executed as Councilman Fernando Albán was but
with much less notoriety.
In order to maintain control of the
internal situation, the kidnappers must change the country's rules of
operation, and for this it is necessary to change the current constitution,
which, even though they have taken no care to violate it, requires a new
constitution in which their disaffections are allowed. Hence, a few days before
the execution of Councilman Albán on October 8, 2018, the well-known
constitutional lawyer, Dr. José Vicente Haro, was kidnapped on the night of
Wednesday, October 3, 2018, just after his declarations of October 1, 2018 (see
http://www.noticierodigital.com/2018/10/jose-vicente-haro-proyecto-constitucion-convierte-al-pais-estado-centralizado/) against the draft socialist
Constitution that the regime let slip, and that has been profusely distributed
on social networks, but without any brand of authorship.
Dr. Haro told CNN about his
traumatic experience of kidnapping, in which there were many blows, and threats
of rape and death against him, using war weapons (see CNN Conclusiones con José
Vicente Haro, en https://youtu.be/ZubRoHe1luo); but above all the submission to a
forced interrogation about political matters of a group that, according to the
explanation given in his interview with CNN, corresponded to a police team with
hierarchical obedience. This obviously does not turn out to be the traditional
"express" kidnapping for money. For the final result, the objective
was only to intimidate him, not kill him, sending a clear message to the rest
of the hostages in the country. Executing one of the country's most important
human rights lawyers with CIDH protection measures would have become very
serious and harmful to the regime.
But why was Dr. Haro kidnapped? In the environment where this lawyer who
defends the human rights of political prisoners operates, threats and
intimidation are common. But why now? Why frighten him with a kidnapping now
and not before? Answer: Because it is important that at this very moment the
regime intimidates the population. It is important to note that one of the few
most respected and authoritative voices in the country to speak about the
communist bodrio that they intend to impose in the very short term is precisely
Dr. José Vicente Haro.
To silence Dr. Haro could turn out
to be something very important for the regime at this moment when it is
marketing to go to elections with the collaborationist opposition and
negotiating a new "potable" CNE for the opposition mass, with the
main political leaders that official opposition in the National Assembly. But
the most important thing: to prevent an early matrix of opinion against
including the Approving Referendum of that new Constitution in the ballot of
the election of Councilmen on December 9. To silence this discussion is,
strategically speaking, something extremely important for the regime in order
to control the population.
However, the kidnapping of Dr. Haro
was covered by the following scandal, the crime of Councilman Fernando Alban.
And this in turn will surely be covered by the next scandal until December 9,
2018. And in the meantime, what are we doing? Putting more emphasis on
discussing what the kidnappers are doing with the hostages, without putting the
emphasis on the core of the problem which is none other than the solution of
the country's kidnapping with hostages situation.
The solution that the official
opposition leadership intends to give to the hostage situation is to live with
the kidnappers, once again validating an electoral process with the regime.
That is the solution that is being proposed to us Venezuelans. It is up to us
to accept that or not. This represents, to say the least, forgetting the blood
that the youths shed in the streets in this struggle. Please! There is a
kidnapping situation and they continue killing the hostages! And the next death
will be more and more cruel and brazen, as was the death of Councilman Fernando
Albán...
And whether they were killed because
they were thrown from a 10th floor or from the roof of the SEBIN building, the
Helicoid or Ramo Verde, or because they were killed in the cells of La Tumba or
ended up dead from hunger, disease or lack of medicine, we have an obligation to think
about how to end the kidnapping. The hostages will then be released as a
result.
We must all agree that there is a
situation of kidnapping with hostages where the only possible negotiation is
the surrender of the kidnappers and their peaceful surrender to legitimate
authorities. In order to do this, we must all mount a supra-national solution
with the intervention of the International Community in order to resolve the
largest hostage situation in the world that occurs in Venezuela. Either the
kidnappers surrender under negotiated conditions or the international security
forces intervene. That is why I advocate for a multinational entity to be
organized outside the country, capable of negotiating with the kidnappers the
largest hostage kidnapping situation in the world, with the capacity to decide
on the last extreme the use of force, where Venezuelans legitimately designated
for that purpose would preferably participate.
Although the
country is horrified by the vile murder of a new hostage, we have a moral
obligation to stop and think coldly, not about how the regime is killing the
hostages, but about how to end the kidnapping, with minimal damage to the
remaining hostages. NOT validating the electoral farce of the government and its official
opposition, as well as the categorical rejection of an illegitimate call for a
Constitutional Referendum on a socialist Constitution, must be an integral part
of that solution. Otherwise kidnapping and crimes will continue indefinitely...
Caracas,
October 12, 2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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