To affirm that a Constituent Assembly is bad or good is like saying that a weapon is bad or good. Depending on who uses it or what objectives it pursues, benefits or tragedies can be obtained with its application. A gun in the hands of criminals has a different connotation if it is in the hands of those who have the responsibility to protect citizens. In other words, a weapon, as well as a Constituent, are tools that can be used to do good or harm to society. Something similar happens with technology
A Constituent Assembly is a tool for change, which used rationally and with open and clear intentions of social welfare, can mean opening new paths for the benefit and advancement of the peoples. But it can also imply, if ideologically manipulated by distorted agents, a lethal weapon to bury its development. So, how to identify each case in each country, and is it possible to do so?
Disregarding the above reasoning, the absurd idea that all Constituent processes are bad per se, and that people should be kept away from them in order to "prevent them from falling into the hands of the communists", is spreading throughout Latin America. This idea is as reactionary as that of burning books to prevent an idea from spreading. That has been tried in the past in the world and it did not work.
What happens is that the people must necessarily be at the educational level to elect good rulers, and they in turn must be at a sufficient level for the people to be educated, so that this in turn permanently produces that virtuous circle that generates social welfare. It is those rulers who will prudently use such delicate tools as a Constituent Assembly to make the necessary adjustments or reforms to guide the development of their nations.
But one does not enter a virtuous circle from a vicious circle without first breaking the circle. A manipulative and ideologically perverted ruler will never allow the education of his people to get out of poverty, thus ensuring that they will never be educated enough to elect a good ruler to take them out of the darkness. It will do, as in the Venezuelan case, everything possible to keep the people in misery, in order to permanently guarantee itself power. If not, let it be confirmed by the sadly famous former Minister Jorge Giordani who affirmed that Chávez's "revolution" needed to keep Venezuelans poor in order to continue growing (see in Spanish Carla Angola's interview to Guaicaipuro Lameda, in https://saladeinfo.wordpress.com/2013/02/13/los-pobres-tendran-que-seguir-siendo-pobres-los-necesitamos-asi/). But it is not only the regime that wants to keep Venezuela in this condition.
When we at ANCO proposed, from within the framework of civil society, a change in the political system to guarantee the breaking of this vicious circle, it is because such a change must be implemented from the political arena. But in Venezuela there has not been enough progress for a full understanding of this process precisely because it has been the political sector, both in the regime and its nefarious opposition, who have guaranteed to keep the population in a state of poverty in order to remain in power, some on one side and others on the "opposite" sidewalk.
The only way to break that vicious circle is for the citizens themselves to find ourselves participating in the political arena to displace that evil symbiosis that has assaulted the vicious circles of power in Venezuela. And we do this with the full awareness of all that means and implies in our country the natural distrust of the citizen to anyone who approaches politics. And the only way to demonstrate that there is a true vocation to recover power for the citizen is to demonstrate it in deeds. And the first step is to declare it, as ANCO has declared when deciding to present itself to the country as a Political Movement, with a clear fundamental objective: to deliver power to the citizen (see in Spanish ANCO Communiqué of March 06, 2023, Without integral renovation, Venezuela will remain in ruins, in https://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2023/03/comunicado-anco-sin-renovacion-integral.html).
A decade ago I wrote a note in which I expressed something that today is more true than ever: In 1931 twelve men sat down in Barranquilla and thought about the country they wanted. They set a course and wrote a PLAN. Regardless of their ideological orientation, they outlined that Plan and set out to execute it. A path, a road map...According to historical references, "...the Barranquilla Plan represents the first expression of a structural analysis of Venezuelan society and its historical process, linked to a political project and a program of action that proposed the struggle against the regime of Juan Vicente Gómez as a revolution of the political and economic structures of the country." (ver http://www.venezuelatuya.com/historia/plan_barranquilla.htm). Venezuela did not see the results of this political approach until much later, when Acción Democrática was already founded, and some of its founders were the same signatories of that Plan, whose program was somehow expressed in concrete action with the 1961 Constitution. An example of this was the first categorical phrase of that Plan: "Civilian men to the management of public affairs" (see in Spanis From the Plan of Barranquilla to the Plan Como-vaya-viniendo-vamos-viendo, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2013/05/del-plan-de-barranquilla-al-plan-como.html).
Now it is not only a question of fighting against a regime worse than that of Juan Vicente Gómez, but a regime with very powerful allies inside and outside the country, partners of international narco-terrorism, with ideologies that break the Judeo-Christian tradition of the West, bent on subjugating our society. Imagine that size of enemy. Gomez was a baby compared to the enemy we have now.
It is not about "going to elections" with a delinquent regime. It is about sustaining a frontal struggle using any means available, with A PLAN in hand, like the one of Barranquilla, and which we now call The Great Change, and which ends -and begins for Venezuela- with a process of structural change of the political power with the call to the people to a National Constituent Assembly of an Original character. And this can only be done from the political arena, but with the unquestionable support of civil society.
It took the signatories of the Barranquilla Plan 15 years to see the Constituent Assembly of the last point of that Plan, which was later interrupted by a coup d'état in 1948, and another 15 years to see a Venezuela on the road to 1961. Those who really want changes in favor of the Venezuelan people are persevering and persistent, and they do not care about the times or the difficulties. This is a marathon, not a 100 meter race.
And if in today's Venezuela there are opportunities to accompany wills that understand in depth the real nature of this historical challenge, we will take them. This will be the way that together more people, each one in his or her own position, will be able to break the vicious circle of education of the population so that the new generations elect rulers that are up to the historical circumstances that Venezuela is living, finally achieving the objective that drove us to renew ourselves in favor of the future of Venezuelans.
Caracas, April 2, 2023
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