What came to my mind when I watched the spectacle offered to Venezuelans by the author and main responsible for the Smartmatic machines, was similar to that famous popular saying that goes "cachicamo telling morrocoy conchudo" (se in Spanish Jorge Rodríguez denuncia irregularidades de Guaidó pidiendo 53 millones de dólares a la OFAC, in https://youtu.be/hGhhNfMPAag).
In his eagerness to discredit the official opposition, denouncing the caretaker government of Juan Guaidó because he has not accounted for our money to Venezuelans, we wonder with what moral could, not only Jorge Rodríguez, but any of the criminals who are still in Miraflores usurping power, call anyone a thief after having robbed and bankrupted an entire country and its main exponents show off their personal wealth abroad, greater than that of the owners of the largest corporations on the planet, starting with the daughter of the very head of the "robolution", the Galactic Commander, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías.
But beyond the accusations of some "cachicamo" on behalf of the regime, which will always be the order of the day, what is new is not in any way the accusation itself but what is officially revealed by the regime as an opposition strategy manifested in the opposition budget discussed in that meeting, which is denounced for an amount of USD 53 million. These opposition actions, although it is true that we were already aware of the activities that the opposition parties established in the National Assembly have deployed, we did not know where and how they were applying the resources they are receiving from the United States.
A great friend of mine, economist Erasmo Filosa, now deceased. (see in Spanish El Señor Filosa, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2011/09/el-senor-filosa.html) a person of great moral and professional authority as a specialist in budgetary matters, always said, and this is what I learned from him, that when something is serious for a government, it must be in its budget because otherwise, it is a charlatanism. In other words, what a government considers really important is what it puts in its budget. Filosa was responsible for the multi-annual budget for the first public Internet network in Venezuela. Read his interesting story in the note I made in his honor.
Then, my concern was not what Rodriguez or the officials of the Government in Charge said in those audios revealed by the regime, beyond the uncontrolled distribution that they were apparently making of the Public Treasury (in the same way as the regime does), but what were the items they chose and on what they effectively put the emphasis of the distribution, because that would be the focus of a budget they make to achieve the freedom of Venezuela.
A budget is nothing more than the result of the operational application of a defined strategy to make a specific project effective. You can see it in any budget for any project. If you have a project to build a 3m long by 2m high wall in your house, what you expect to see there are items for materials such as blocks, cement, sand, rebar, paint, masonry tools, concrete mix and labor for foremen and workers. You don't expect to see a budget for a contractor's party at the end of the job, or hotel accommodations for the workers to stay overnight to finish the job. Everything has to be related to the project you are requesting to do. Therefore, if the budget is in order, you would expect to have the wall at the end of the project, because it, your budget, coincides in all its parts with the project you had in mind.
The most important project that we Venezuelans have and that we have handed over to the official opposition to execute is none other than the liberation of Venezuela. If this is the budget managed by the official opposition for the most important project of Venezuela, it will be difficult for Venezuelans to have the wall of the example ready one day. We see there a global item (without visible discrimination) of more than 23 million dollars for the "Defense of Democracy" and the rest for the maintenance of the bureaucracy of the interim. In other words, if this bureaucracy consumes a little more than 55% of the project, this project is already ill-conceived. And it would be necessary to see what they call "Defense of Democracy", which I imagine must be nothing more than the maintenance in Venezuela of the infrastructure of the parties that designed that budget. In other words, a budget to "survive" the regime, not to get it out.
Now, whether the budget is 1 dollar or 53 million dollars, Venezuelans have the right to know the plan that the official opposition has in mind, even if it is only in general terms, because we are all involved and it undoubtedly translates into a budget that must be financed in some way. What is that plan? So far nobody knows. What we have seen above is that they have half-replicated the structure of the public powers, with payments to the National Assembly, Office of the Presidency, Foreign Affairs, Communications, Comptroller's Office, Magistrates, Ad Hoc Boards of BCV, PDVSA, Pequiven, BANDES, CVG, etc.), without any explanation as to how this helps the regime to fall.
Likewise, we see that an extensive payroll is budgeted for Deputies who are no longer in office because the National Assembly operates only as a Delegated Commission since January 5, 2021 with few Deputies, as well as the inclusion of non-personal, legal, professional and technical services that someone should justify according to an established plan. Then, a budget without a known plan of execution to get out of the regime is nothing but a swindle to Venezuelans, who expect precisely that plan from those who represent us or should represent us.
A budget such as the one revealed by Rodriguez is NOT TO EXIT THE MADURO REGIME, IT IS TO CONTINUE IT. And that is what is significant here. If Rodriguez had denounced something against the regime, he himself would have said so. But what he stupidly emphasizes is that they are stealing the money, as if that were something they have not done since they have been in power, sending the message that it is the same to be with them than with this incompetent opposition, which is not such a crazy approach if we go to the results.
And that is the problem we have with the official opposition, the incompetence to get out of the regime and to design a serious plan to end our nightmare. And since they do not have one, unfortunately we see its expression in that budget that the regime gives us that would not even get a civilian chief out of power. How do we change that? By seriously changing those who represent us. But since that is frozen as long as there are no free, fair and transparent elections, then we will directly exercise our sovereignty, as we did with the Popular Consultation, taking a step forward with the genuine representation of the organized civil society through the Citizen Pact for Constitutional and Democratic Restoration (see in Spanish Firma personalmente el Pacto Ciudadano para el Restablecimiento Constitucional y Democrático, in https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/firma-personalmente-el-pacto-ciudadano-para-el-restablecimiento-constitucional-y-democr%C3%A1tico.html). From there, a new opposition must be built that truly wants to get rid of this delinquent regime, and that definitively establishes a plan that does reflect a complete budget in accordance with that purpose. The rest are walls that will remain unbuilt...
Caracas, April 15, 2021
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