By Luis Manuel Aguana
The level of a country's political leadership
is definitely evidenced by the quality of the solutions they provide to the
problems they face. A few weeks after the Sao Paulo Forum's attack on Chilean
democracy, on November 15, the opposition and the government of President
Sebastián Piñera designed a political agreement in the Chilean Congress that
put an end to what was considered in the region a serious fissure in the
continent's democracy, giving a civil and democratic course to the crisis.
As our friend Antonio Sánchez García points
out in one of his last enlightening notes about the crisis in his native
country: "The difference, the brutal
difference between the political managers in Chile, with respect to Venezuela
and Cuba, the latter countries incomparably less gifted, cultured, experienced
and rigorous in the friendly-enemy battles that usually characterize the
management of public affairs, is that in Chile the political, cultural and
media parties and institutions dominate the art of sublimating, metabolizing
and digesting their political conflicts without their roofs collapsing..."
(see in Spanish Antonio Sánchez García, El despertador barbudo in https://t.co/2UHipGMQUI?amp=1).
Indeed, that country is not only more
economically developed than ours, but also more politically developed. It was
able to "digest" in hours the serious problem they had, finding the
best solution: to consult the popular Sovereignty, which only resides in the
Chilean people, the reconstruction of the Social Pact, and which is finally
established in a new Constitution.
Even if Chilean politicians dominate "the art of sublimating, metabolizing
and digesting their political conflicts without their roofs collapsing,"
as Sánchez García says, why is it so difficult for Venezuelan politicians to
understand that the solution to our conflict also involves citizen
participation? Why insist on unleashing a violent rupture from within to bring
about change? The 23F, 30A and now the 16N with a march without citizen
support, tried to ignite in the streets a conflict that would end, according to
his calculations, in a displacement of the power of the Maduro regime.
That insistence on repeating and repeating
the same thing, hoping for different results, is the "Einsteinian"
definition of madness, as the genius rightly indicated. And the most serious
thing is that they try to apply the same "street" solution in the
worst conditions that we Venezuelans have ever had, and that is worsening every
day that passes with the incessant flight of hundreds of compatriots from the
country, added to the most serious economic tragedy that Venezuela has ever
experienced in its history. How can the official opposition call a street
"without return" to a people that dies of hunger, that has to go out
every day to pull out almost every devalued Bolivar from the air in order to
feed itself? In what country lives Juan Guaidó and his people? And after 16N
what? What lack of interpretation of the political moment we live in!
What did the official opposition achieve on
16N beyond the frustration and annoyance of Venezuelans? The Chileans set off
their internal conflict in days with a solution that served them all. And far
from making hateful comparisons between the situations of two different
peoples, we, with the support that has never been given nationally and
internationally to any politician in Venezuela, with this opposition at the
forefront, have not been able to generate a solution in more than 10 months.
And I don't think it's a lack of imagination. The facts have shown that the
shots are rather on the sides of corruption and cohabitation with the regime,
behind the backs of the interests of Venezuelans.
Given the importance that this Chile
agreement could have for Venezuela, I would like to quote its first 4 points,
publicly read from the Peace Agreement and the new Constitution of Chile,
presented by the president of the Chilean Senate, Jaime Quintana. (see in Spanish Histórico Acuerdo por una nueva Constitución, in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9MiX7BsNO4):
"Faced with the serious
political and social crisis of the country, in response to the mobilization of
citizens and the call made by His Excellency President Sebastián Piñera, the
undersigned parties have agreed on an institutional solution whose objective is
to seek peace and social justice through an unobjectionably democratic
procedure:
1.- The parties that sign this agreement guarantee
their commitment to the restoration of peace and public order in Chile and full
respect for human rights and democratic institutions in force;
2.- A Plebiscite will be held in April 2020 to resolve
two questions:
a.
Do you want a new Constitution? I approve - I reject
b. What kind of
organ should draft the new Constitution?
i.
Mixed
Constitutional Convention
ii.
Constitutional
Convention
3.- The Mixed Constitutional Convention shall be
composed in equal parts of members elected for the purpose and serving
parliamentarians;
4.- In the case of the Constitutional Convention, its
members shall be fully elected for this purpose. The election of the members of
both bodies shall take place in October 2020, together with the Regional and
Municipal elections under universal suffrage with the same electoral system
that governs the elections of deputies in the corresponding proportion;
Only two questions will be asked of the
Chilean people so that they can decide whether or not they want a new Social
Pact that resolves their internal political and social differences, and which
will then be translated into a Constitutional text that adapts to the new
times. In the same way as it will be that organ that in Venezuela we call the
National Constituent Assembly, asking if it will include or not the deputies of
the current Congress of the Republic. If the Chileans succeed in resolving
their differences with that or not, it will be up to them to decide. But whatever
comes out will come out of what its citizens say. That is the real bottom line!
That is what is really important! In Venezuela we will ask the people to decide
in due course and like Chile, a Constituent process of Original character. In
ANCO we are committed to that. But first we have to get out of the usurper
regime with the power that only Popular Sovereignty gives.
That is exactly what we have proposed from
ANCO: Let the Venezuelan people decide! The situation in Venezuela is much more
complex than in Chile, given that here we are subject to a delinquent regime
supported by terrorism and international drug cartels. However, the solution
goes in exactly the same direction: to submit to the consideration of
Venezuelans, both inside and outside the country, the route to follow to solve
the problem. That is why we will have to work hard to find a way for the
Venezuelan people to speak out.
From ANCO we have proposed a procedure that
ends in a consultation to the Popular Sovereignty, and that later the mandate
of the people is fulfilled, in spite of the regime. We have
been describing this procedure for months now (see in Spanish Porqué un
Plebiscito SI y unas Elecciones NO en Venezuela, in http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2019/07/porque-un-plebiscito-si-y-unas.html,
and Plebiscito: Que el pueblo decida el cese de la usurpación, en http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2019/07/plebiscito-que-el-pueblo-decida-el-cese.html)
so I won't repeat it here. However, the minimum
questions that we propose are adapted to the trilogy that will be announced to
the country on January 23rd:
“1) CESSATION OF THE USURPATION. Do you approve the
immediate cessation of the usurpation of the illegitimate powers exercised by
Nicolás Maduro Moros as President, the National Constituent Assembly, the Moral
Citizen Council, the Supreme Court of Justice, and the National Electoral
Council? (*)
(*) The will of the
citizenship is expressly declared based on the principle of popular sovereignty
and articles 5,22,23 and 70 of the Constitution, which the National Constituent
Assembly (ANC) assumes illegitimate on August 3 of 2017 and therefore all its
null and ineffective acts, to initiate the process of reparation of popular
sovereignty and in the case of not ceasing this usurpation, I authorize
countries to assume the obligation to take measures to liberate and help the
people of Venezuela and stop the violation of human rights in accordance with
the doctrine of the UN and the approval by the National Assembly of the TIAR
already approved by the OAS.
2) TRANSITION
GOVERNMENT Do you require and authorize the Citizen President of the National
Assembly as President in Charge of the Republic that, in accordance with the
current Constitution, within thirty days designate a provisional Government of
national unity to initiate the change of Political administrative and
constitutional model of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela?
3) FREE ELECTIONS Do you
order that the provisional transition government, as soon as possible, convene
and hold free, fair, transparent elections, with a new electoral system and
audited to legitimize the exercise of Public Power in Venezuela, organized,
directed and monitored with the participation of a new directive of the CNE, of
the Venezuelan people, their social, union, civil and political organizations
and international supervision? ”
These
questions are in a process of permanent and exhaustive revision by a legal and
political team of ANCO throughout the country, to expand and/or modify them;
and they give an idea to Venezuelans that there are people in the country who
think in another way of proposing the departure of Nicolás Maduro Moros,
without expecting or requiring from them more blood sacrifices in the streets
of Venezuela, as a consequence of the incapacity and/or corruption of the
political leadership of the official opposition. Hopefully, Venezuela after 16N
will understand that it is only required that the people claim and firmly
demand from their representatives their right to political participation
established in the Constitution, without interception of any nature. That is much
more sensible than going out on the streets without purpose, led by people who
still believe that Venezuelans are a bunch of assholes with no criteria. Thank God the 16N streets of Venezuela proved
otherwise.
Caracas, November 17, 2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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