I don't usually publish so often but without having finished "sending" to my social networks the most recent article, where I deal precisely with a phenomenon that seems to be becoming a political modality, about the civil society that plays the game to the regime (see Is there an alacran civil society?, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/is-there-alacran-civil-society.html), a new and important letter appears, signed by another very different group of well-known citizens of civil society, requesting the President of the United States and important representatives of the U.S. Congress and American politics to remove the sanctions on the criminals who usurp power in Venezuela (see in Spanish the letter published by AlbertoNews, in https://b1tly4n3s.com/nacionales/ultma-hora-estos-son-los-opositores-que-le-pidieron-a-biden-aliviar-las-sanciones-contra-la-dictadura-de-maduro-lista/).
In this very particular case, and contrary to the strong current that exploded in the social networks that jumped on the necks of the people who signed this communication, subjecting them to public scorn as scorpions, we must stop and think: Why a very particular group of citizens, economists and social leaders, in some cases publicly recognized in their different fields of activity, request the same thing that Maduro demanded from the US in his meeting with representatives of the US government during his visit to Miraflores?
In that list of signatories there are characters that would not sign alone, not even on their own identity card, without the consent and endorsement of the political leaders of the MUD/G4 parties, much less a letter addressed to the President of the United States. It is not necessary to point out names because the problem is not the signatory sinners, but the mortal sin in its essence committed. We are not in the presence of a scorpion civil society signing something "to favor Maduro and his regime, consciously or unconsciously" in exchange for something, in the strict sense, as I defined it in my previous note. We are here before an operation of a much higher level.
The Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Legal Spanish defines the term " interposed person" as: "Pen. In crimes against public administration, a person who acts on behalf of another with knowledge and will. In the crimes of bribery, prohibited negotiation and activity prohibited to public officials, a person who is used by the perpetrator to act in his place hiding his participation in a fact." (see in Spanish, Interposed person, DEJ Panhispánico, in https://dpej.rae.es/lema/persona-interpuesta).
I am going to suggest you here to handle a theory that can only be proven with future facts when they are presented: these characters acting as "interposed person" are being used "in favor of another with knowledge and will", presenting themselves as independent actors, when in reality they are representatives of the main political factors of the official opposition, and act "in their place hiding their participation in a fact". And what is the fact? Appearing at the forefront of something that they cannot do publicly, which is to advocate in favor of the Maduro regime in order to reach an agreement that favors the interests of the principals of that communication.
And it is not that these signatories are hollow puppets at the blind service of a mediocre opposition political leadership -quite the contrary-, but that some of them have been the intellectual authors behind many of the economic, political and social policies that this terrible opposition has proposed (to get out of the regime?) and put into practice in recent years, with the catastrophic results that have prevented the departure of Maduro and his thieves. That makes it absolutely much more macabre than a simple support to the regime, coming from an official opposition that with this move would have no political capital to risk by sending a letter asking for what is requested there.
Although this is not a crime, as described in its definition by the Pan-Hispanic DEJ, both of those who appear signing and those who hide, Venezuelans could perfectly well consider it as such, since it constitutes a betrayal by the middle street and a crime for attempting to perpetuate the crimes against humanity being committed by the regime, by those who still claim to politically represent Venezuelans.
I invite Venezuelans to analyze this letter under this new perspective, looking closely at the arguments addressed to the U.S. by these undercover agents of the MUD/G4. The first thing they ask for is to resume the dialogue in Mexico, something that had started after the visit of the U.S. representatives to Maduro, but which stopped when the regime decided to ignore them and to consider a new dialogue not with them but with the "political class of the scorpions", a sort of union of politicians and civil society willing to coexist with Maduro, as accurately defined by one of my regular readers after reading my recent note. That definitely worried them, giving rise to this desperate attempt to redirect the dialogue towards them.
The cornerstone of what they are trying to substantiate is that "The economic sanctions and the policy of maximum pressure did not achieve their objectives". But come on, is that really so? It's like telling the US that they have to lift the sanctions on Russia because they have not brought about the end of the war and Putin has not withdrawn his troops. That fatuous argument forgets that it is precisely the sanctions that are putting to negotiate some criminals who would otherwise piss themselves laughing at all Venezuelans, especially them.
To indicate that the sanctions "have seriously exacerbated the living conditions of the average Venezuelan" is to openly ignore that those who have destroyed the productive apparatus of the country, starting with the oil industry, and those responsible for all the evils mentioned therein, have been precisely this regime imposed more than 20 years ago and that the sanctions have come after some amateur politicians were given the opportunity in 2019 to lead the official opposition from the recognition of Juan Guaidó Márquez as President in Charge, and they have failed with all their letters. What kind of crude manipulation is that? What is it pretending to tell the Americans?
Where do these magic numbers come from, indicating that "75% of Venezuelans strongly reject the sectoral sanctions and only 10% want them to be maintained"? From the statistical laboratories of the devalued polling company owned by one of the signatories? Please! They could at least ask the Americans to make their own objective measurement to verify if this corresponds to reality. That is a statement for assholes! What has not "benefited Venezuelans", as the letter says, are not the sanctions but the opposition proposals to get out of the regime, reason why many Venezuelans demand an immediate change in the opposition political leadership of the country.
On the other hand, the Americans cannot be asked to negotiate "positions in the best interest of the Venezuelan people and to overcome the internal political pressures in the U.S., which, until now, unfortunately, have hindered the progress of the negotiations". That is not up to them. It is a subtle way of asking the Americans to act in favor of getting Maduro to abandon the "political class of scorpions" under pressure from the US, without seeing that this is precisely the negotiation game used by the criminals in Miraflores to sit with advantage in this new cycle in Mexico.
But what is most striking is the economic background of the missive: oil. "We urge to reach agreements that allow the return of Western oil companies and other private companies to rejuvenate the Venezuelan oil sector, which will generate employment and promote local production". This reveals much of what is behind this letter also signed by a covert mixed representation of other important interests for the reactivation of oil production. This interest is not only of the regime but also of the official opposition, confirming the concern that I expressed in a previous note when the interests of the regime and those of its opposition coincide in the same direction. (see Venezuela, a ship in a perfect storm, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/venezuela-ship-in-perfect-storm.html).
The letter ends with vows to "Put an end to the crisis in Venezuela and help build a new future for the country, with full respect for the rule of law, economic freedoms and human rights, it is up to - and will benefit - all of us". If the U.S. government, in a fit of madness, pays attention to these representatives of a civil society acting as a proxy for a mixture of explosive interests, the crisis in Venezuela will not end. Not even in the Latin American region. It will deepen. Imagine a regime screwed with more money than Chávez ever dreamed of, product of a war that looks endless, exporting its model with renewed success to the rest of the continent. And Venezuelans subdued and screwed with a few crumbs a little bigger but without freedom. Certainly that will benefit them, as the letter ends, but not us but them and their principals. What a bargain for everyone. With such an opposition we don't need Maduro....
Caracas, April 16, 2022
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