By Luis
Manuel Aguana
The
approval of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR)
by the Permanent Council of the OAS, to be applied in Venezuela, even
if it is a preliminary action before taking any decision that implies
the application of force, opens a new front of possibilities to
submit to new international pressures the usurper regime of Nicolás
Maduro Moros.
Indeed,
"the
Treaty provides for a range of options, ranging from negotiations,
the severance of diplomatic relations, the severance of consular
relations, the suspension of economic communications, land, sea and
air transport, radio and radio communications and the option of
military coercive action".
See
note of La
Voz de América “OEA aprueba convocatoria para activar el TIAR en
Venezuela”, en
https://www.voanoticias.com/a/oea-aprueba-convocatoria-para-activar-tiar/5079426.html).
But
will this preliminary approval bring a forceful solution tomorrow to
dislodge the tyranny of Nicolás Maduro Moros? Definitely NO. It
opens if a new chapter of diplomatic struggle as long as the ordeal
we Venezuelans suffer. The official opposition has sold people that
this activation would bring instant results. Nothing could be further
from the truth. Chile, which voted in favor in the OAS Permanent
Council, indicated that it would not approve a force solution. In
fact, it requested, along with Peru and Costa Rica, that such a
possibility be excluded through an amendment, which was rejected.
The
Rio Treaty, as TIAR is also called, like all post-World War II
relics, was created as an insurance for a world subject to nuclear
conflict between powers. The United States made its regional
influence clear by promoting its creation, since in no Latin American
country was there any obligation to accompany an armed conflict of
this nature, of there being an aggression against the Americas by any
other power involved, which was otherwise the furthest removed from
our realities.
However,
TIAR has foreseen the case of an armed conflict between the same
American States (Article 7), something that we could possibly live
with Colombia because of the criminal imprudence of the one who holds
power in Venezuela, who intends to lead us to an armed conflict with
Colombians, as Leopoldo Galtieri did in Argentina in an attempt to
remain in power at the expense of the blood of his compatriots,
starting a war with England for nationalist motives. It is in this
context that the Treaty, in its Article 8, establishes those measures
that the Voice of America reviews in its journalistic article. (see
https://es.wikisource.org/wiki/Tratado_Interamericano_de_Asistencia_Rec%C3%Adproca).
It
could be considered that the presence in Venezuela of Cuban, Russian,
Chinese, Iranian military forces, etc., as well as the permanent
refuge of the Colombian guerrillas FARC and ELN in our territory,
both propitiated by the regime to remain in power, could be taken to
the stage of TIAR discussions in the OAS, as a case within the scope
of the Rio Treaty discussions, but hardly, unless a conflict is
initiated with Colombia, is material for what we are really
interested in now, which is nothing other than removing Nicolás
Maduro from power as soon as possible, which is what Venezuelans
desperately need.
It
is incomprehensible the special interest of the official opposition
to take TIAR beyond having been the distraction of the National
Assembly to freeze the discussion of the approval of the foreign
military presence for the accompaniment of humanitarian aid. If not,
what is the reason for not having approved 187#11 before taking the
TIAR proposal to the OAS? That would have given more force to the
proposal within the framework of the Organization because it would
have presented us as willing to go further.
TIAR
was - and still is in my opinion - a parapet to tell Venezuelans "we
are doing something to force them out, as you are asking”. They
used it to freeze in the National Assembly the discussion of 187#11
and then the R2P, which are effectively the instruments to force a
decision of foreign military accompaniment of the International
Community - with the United States at the head - for humanitarian
reasons, and which makes the countries mobilize immediately. This
route is truly supported by reports of violations of Human Rights of
the UN and the OAS, and of proven crimes of Lesa Humanidad. However,
the entire diplomatic effort of the Interim Government has focused on
TIAR. Why?
I
believe that the reason is that since nothing immediate will be
achieved "with what you are asking for" then we will have
to go to an election with the regime because "this can't be
tolerated anymore". That's a very old trick of Venezuelan
politics where I distract you in a solution that finally proves
impossible, to then convince you of what you really didn't want to do
that was go to an electoral process cheated with the regime. Does
this seem crazy to you? So they don't know half the story of those
who are there not precisely because of assholes.
In
Venezuela there will not be a humanitarian intervention solution,
which is really the immediate solution to the problem, if we do not
work for it in the corresponding international scenarios, negotiating
the conditions that trigger that event and on which such intervention
could be carried out, such as, for example, a direct pronouncement of
popular sovereignty. Why hasn't Juan Guaido gone to speak personally
with Donald Trump about the humanitarian intervention with military
support from the United States and other allies? Why haven't his
people in the United States intensified their contacts with the help
of our main ally in this crisis, which has been from the beginning,
Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the OAS? So I don't see what the
Americans call "commitment," that is, you're not committed.
And if they don't see that in those who "represent us" much
less will they make a decision to expose their people to armed
conflict in Venezuela. The rest is, as a good friend says, water,
cologne and peo... because those are the ones the wind takes away.
Caracas,
September 11, 2019
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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