By Luis Manuel Aguana
Since this 20-year-old nightmare came to an end on April 11, 2002, many
Venezuelans have joined the ranks of those who consider themselves opponents of
the regime. What I can never imagine is that now we have to register in the
opposition of the official opposition. In fact, I was already registered there,
criticizing for some time now in this corner of the net, the decisions more and
more lost of the official opposition.
But I had not considered it "opposition" in the strict sense
of the term because I believed - I recall here again the white urn that my
friends always say they are going to bury me - that if in good faith the errors
that some of us believe are being committed were indicated, they could be
corrected for the benefit of Venezuelans. I have always considered my criticism
as a kind of citizen comptroller that every Venezuelan should exercise from any
tribune that he has, and of any size that he has.
However, Venezuelans are appreciating with greater astonishment that it
is not temporary errors that are being committed from the sidewalk of the
official opposition, but structural errors that not only do not go in the
direction of correcting the usurpation that has been denounced again and again,
but they go in the completely opposite direction by reaffirming the illegitimate
power that is being usurped from Miraflores, blurring the route that began on
January 23 with the interim presidency of Juan Guaidó Márquez.
In my previous note I indicated that the latest appointments of
President Juan Guaidó revealed the reaffirmation of a route that would lead us
to elections with the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, which implied a tacit recognition
of the usurper regime (see On the edge of an election, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_66.html). However, I did
not delve into that line because the focus I wanted to give to that note was
that it was going to an election that nobody in Venezuela approves because it
does not go to the real problem of eliminating first, and immediately, the root
of the evil that is the existence of the regime itself before going to an
electoral process through a Transitional Government.
Since the National Assembly drafted and approved this Statute of the Transition considers it unconstitutional (see The Trap of the Statute Law Governing the Transition, en https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/the-trap-of-statute-law-governing.html) where I said things like this: "The first question we should ask ourselves here is, is a transitional law required for the regime to leave, or is a transitional law required for WHEN the regime leaves? Note here the enormous difference between the two postulates because from there two completely different laws derive. Is this a law with Maduro inside or without Maduro inside? Everything seems to indicate that the law that was approved yesterday in first discussion is a law with Maduro inside Miraflores. And that is unacceptable, and even less so with the unanimous support of the civilized world for the president-in-charge of Juan Guaidó, beginning with the support of the United States and the determined attitude of its president to evict the communists”.
If at that time a Transitional Law was not acceptable with Maduro
illegally exercising power, imagine what it would be like if that same Statute
allows the person who is entitled to exercise the First Magistracy by
constitutional design, in compliance with Article 233 of the Constitution, to
delegate in another person his powers as President, in contravention of the
Constitution (see in Spanish, Agencia EFE, Guaidó anuncia la creación de un “centro
de Gobierno” con López a cargo, en https://www.efe.com/efe/america/politica/guaido-anuncia-la-creacion-de-un-centro-gobierno-con-leopoldo-lopez-a-cargo/20000035-4051908).
In fact, the President in Charge and his government team invented a "Government
Center" that does not exist in the Constitution, specially designed so
that Leopoldo López will be the one to exercise the position to which the
Constitution obliges Juan Guaidó: "The
head of Parliament, Juan Guaidó, recognized as interim president of Venezuela
by more than 50 countries, announced on Wednesday the creation of a
"Government Center" that will coordinate all the representatives that
he has appointed in his administration and that will be in charge of the
opponent Leopoldo López", indicated EFE Agency's note. In other words,
he will coordinate the entire interim government appointed by Guaidó until now:
ambassadors, representatives of Venezuelan companies abroad and any other post
that may be appointed from that presidency.
Former UN Ambassador Diego Arria is right to denounce in a recent video (see
in Spanish El desmantelamiento de Juan Guaidó como Presidente Interino, in https://youtu.be/1l06j92_yUU) because these
appointments reveal the lack of an Interim Government of Juan Guaidó. And this
is really serious. Guaidó CANNOT, even if he wants to, dislodge himself from
his condition NOR FROM HIS RESPONSIBILITY as President in Charge, unless he
resigns, a situation that would take the problem to another level. It could
even be said that if this does not have legal consequences for Guaido -which
could be debatable- if it has it in the political order.
Venezuelans aren't stupid. We already know that whoever controls what
happens with the government in charge of Guaidó is led by Leopoldo López, and
that is why all the appointments are now and in the future of Voluntad Popular
and its chief, as drivers in a transition. They themselves have taken care to
make us see it. But from there to being told to the country and to the
International Community that officially it is someone else who takes the
decisions is like too much, having formally recognized another person as
President in Charge. With whom will the governments be understood, with Guaidó
or with López? What will the International Community say about this
"unfolding" of the legitimately recognized Presidency?
This is no longer a conjunctural "mistake", it is a structural
weakness that is no longer only of those who are exercising a
President-in-Charge, but of the entire network that they invented from an
unconstitutional Statute of Transition, which is becoming more and more watery
because they have not solved the center of all this problem: THEY HAVE NOT
REMOVED MADURO FROM MIRAFLORES!
If we add to this the latest events in Colombia that require a strong
opposition position and unified leadership of our country, which will be in a
pre-war state by the decisions of the FARC guerrillas to return to arms, and a
regime that is already the protector of his misdeeds, the least interested in a
dismantling of Guaidó as President in Charge are Venezuelans. But unfortunately
we see the declared former President in Charge Guaidó not be very interested in
these problems in an act where Henry Ramos Allup raises his hand as the next
candidate for Acción Democrática (see twit in Spanish from Reporte
Confidencial, https://twitter.com/RConfidencial/status/1167891157583454211). I can't be less
than an opponent of that. We were many and the grandmother gave birth...
Caracas, August
31, 2019
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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