Certainly, the accusations of corruption recently made against the Government of Juan Guaidó in charge of recovering the assets of the Republic, do not help in any way to the materialization of the announced route for the recovery of the country. The attacks, justified or not, of the inefficiency of the Government in Charge to concretize the Cessation of Usurpation since its announcement in February 2019, are making a dent like a corrosive acid in the stability of the only national and international strategy that has been successful against the regime of Nicolas Maduro Moros. And the latter is laughing to death about it.
With this I am not coming out in defense of something that clearly needs to be investigated, but of what seems to be hidden behind it, which is nothing other than the succession of power in Venezuela. From the very moment the National Assembly approved the Agreement for the Transition, the political parties that approved the Presidency-in-Charge of Juan Guaidó did not want him in power for more than 30 days. Although this varied later with the final version of the Agreement, taking it up to a year, this spirit of immediacy was lacking in all the political leaders. How was it possible that a young man who fell from above, due to a political roulette wheel that only exists in Venezuela, could occupy a seat that only corresponds to them? Only the minimum time necessary, no more! And that has not changed one millimeter since then, no matter what happens to the Venezuelans.
The main problem then was not to get out of the regime as soon as possible, but rather whoever rose to power afterwards. And if any of those political leaders do not agree with that succession, then they will prefer that Maduro stay in Miraflores until there is a succession convenient to their interests. And to hell with the Venezuelans...
I feel that what is happening with Guaidó in this quagmire where corruption and the chess of political succession move, really revolves around a fundamental fact: who will make the transition. On that will depend the political future of many unburied corpses of the old politics that do not want to leave yet. Corruption is used with a double purpose: to dirty the Government in Charge so that it cannot do what it has the obligation to do with the Venezuelans, which is nothing more than to leave Maduro, and on the other hand to get some real ones to finance the aspirations of whoever is behind moving the pieces of that strategy. "Double play", as they say in baseball.
By this I am not saying that the denunciations are not made, but that we really know who benefits from these acts and why. Do we Venezuelans want to break the back of the Guaidó Presidency? I think it would be suicidal and a major brand of stupidity. It's like asking the frog to help us cross the river and in the middle of the way it will sting like a scorpion. That would sink us all.
Of all those who shoot at the head of the Presidency-in-Charge, there is no one to tell Venezuelans what we are replacing it with, and what we are left with if we end up "self-suicidal" with the Guaidó Presidency. They are happy to shout that there are corrupt people - that there are - and that the Cessation of Usurpation has not been fulfilled, without proposing anything else beyond an armed intervention because "alone we cannot". And I ask myself, with them at the head? Of course! It's not as if they were stupid. And when the Government in Charge finally hears a proposal from civil society to materialize that promise, then they also kick the solution because Guaidó took it in. And then? Where are we Venezuelans left in that picture of pathetic egocentricity?
The time is coming when Venezuelans, and especially the political leadership, will choose between Maduro and Guaidó. And if we choose Guaidó then let's seriously put all our efforts with him to get out of Maduro. The options are exhausted and we only have that frog to cross the river, even if we don't like it. Let's not stab it in the back in the middle of the river for subaltern reasons because we will all drown.
I have been a harsh critic of the President-in-Charge's performance precisely because of the way he came into office and those who accompany him. Many of them are enemies of his success for the above reasons. But the time has come to decide to help by proposing concrete things that can be made possible to make that path more expedient and easier. I will give a clear example. There were 37 political organizations that signed the Unitary Pact for Freedom and Free Elections, and all the representatives of those parties were present at the announcement. However, I have yet to see the first of them publicly give their support and lower the guidelines for the fulfillment of that Pact to their militancy throughout the country after more than a week of being announced. Political laziness? Bending over in case Guaidó fails? By now the entire country and the diaspora, parties and organized civil society should be mobilizing and organizing around the Pact. Our people in ANCO throughout the country are already doing so in order to make effective this Popular Consultation that we have proposed and that has been announced. It is not only rhetoric, it is action.
I have insisted that ANCO's proposal, hosted by President Encargado Juan Guaidó, is a proposal from Civil Society, NOT from the Encharged Government. Its success or failure depends on us, in the understanding that the Encharged Government will accept it as it was proposed, and not a distorted version of it by interests alien to those of Venezuela, which is not the product of a seriously discussed and decided agreement between the civil society and the political leadership of the Encharged Government. Only in this way will it have sufficient credibility for Venezuelans to come to it. We are all risking the country!
In November of last year, before a denunciation made in the media for acts of corruption by the Government in charge, I insisted that it would be impossible to rebuild Venezuela if the leadership that pretends to replace the regime is exactly the same or worse than its own (see The only way of Juan Guaidó, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_91.html). I was saying that it's very simple math and a basic rule of executive management: you don't make up for what's gone wrong by using those who messed up.
Corruption will be an evil that will always be present despite the best willingness to fight it. The difference has to be in the determination to exterminate it by whoever is driving. When Dr. Ramon J. Velasquez, a character of undeniable ethical and moral condition, occupied the Presidency in charge of the Republic, he was involved in a corruption scandal because of the pardon of a drug dealer, coming from his own signature. Immediately, Dr. Velasquez took the necessary actions by repealing the pardon decree and conducting an investigation that compromised his own son. This is a determination that should exist in anyone who occupies that high Magistracy, but who also understands what his conduct entails in times where the life of the Republic is at stake.
Guaidó has no other choice but to follow the path of Ramón J. Velásquez, and to give indisputable signs of a change of direction to the population in order to demonstrate that the succession he represents is the most convenient, not only for politicians who seek to make firewood out of a wobbly tree, but also for Venezuelans who have been gradually losing confidence that their leadership can lead to the changes the country is demanding. If he achieves that, changes will not be long in coming...
Caracas, September 16, 2020
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