Venezuelans simply cannot let pass for history the operetta representation made by Nicolás Maduro Moros by being represented by an inflatable doll in the protocol and military acts of July 5, 2022 at the Paseo de Los Próceres. To what extent this multi-headed regime could have degraded, the most visible being that of the illegitimate Maduro, the military that still follow him, tolerate and celebrate as a grace, a disrespect of such a size to the memory of our liberators, represented by the Monument to Los Próceres.
The mere fact of imagining that the 11 military heroes represented in the statues of Simón Bolívar, Antonio José de Sucre, Rafael Urdaneta, Santiago Mariño, Francisco de Miranda, José Antonio Páez, Manuel Piar, José Félix Ribas, Luis Brión, Juan Bautista Arismendi, and José Francisco Bermúdez, together with all the brave men who asserted with their lives the Act of Independence signed on July 5, and whose names are carved in stone in the monoliths of Los Proceres, commemorating the 4 battles that sealed the independence of the Bolivarian countries, Ayacucho, Boyacá, Pichincha and Carabobo, should contemplate from wherever they are that all that unimaginable effort would have been in vain, when ending their glorious liberating army worshiping in 2022 an inflatable doll, representing in that show what is left of Venezuela, should at least turn them over from their graves.
In fact, contemplating this insult to the heroes who are the reason why we have a country, should give much food for thought to those who still support Nicolás Maduro Moros and his gang of criminals in power with the arms of the Republic, and even more so to those in the Armed Forces who do not participate in the feast and go hungry like the rest of us. Didn't this deplorable show we put on before the world give them the same shame, just like the rest of Venezuelans?
This situation reminded me of a story I read recently about King Richard III's line at the Battle of Bosworth, quoted by Shakespeare, when falling from his horse he was completely helpless to the enemy troops, shouting: "A horse, my kingdom for a horse", mentioned in an excellent article by Paul Regent (see in Spanish, El Observador, Mi reino por un caballo, en https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/mi-reino-por-un-caballo-20219195023) where he refers that this event was explained in a poem written by George Herbert in 1651:
"For the lack of a nail, it was that the horseshoe was lost, for the lack of a horseshoe it was that the horse was lost, for the lack of a horse, it was that the knight was lost, for the lack of a knight it was that the battle was lost, and just as the battle was that a kingdom was lost, and all because it was a nail that was missing."
King Richard III thought he lost his kingdom because of a horse, when in reality he lost it because of a chain of insignificant events that starting with a nail had as a tragic end the loss of his kingdom. When Maduro loses his "kingdom" it will be mistakenly said that it was because of his inflatable doll, and we will all imagine him exclaiming "My kingdom because of a doll", when in reality that will be nothing more than the culmination of a chain of events that will end up bursting from the inside the rottenness that we all already contemplate from the outside.
Maduro is by far the representation of a power that is no longer such. He is nothing more than an intermediary agent before us of a delivery that has already been consummated abroad. Russia, China, Iran and Cuba are the real principals of that puppet we saw in Los Proceres. Day by day, and mistake after mistake, Maduro is becoming impossible to sustain. He can no longer even keep his business partners safe with the FARC and ELN in Venezuelan territory, and he hides by blaming the Colombian government.
While, on the one hand, Maduro negotiates with a US mission to increase oil production in exchange for sanctions, at the same time he sends his foreign minister to kneel before Putin in Russia, endorsing the crimes being committed by that tyranny in Ukraine, on July 4th, American Independence Day. What message do you think he is sending to the Americans?
The contradictions of that leadership that has shamed the Venezuelan nationality this July 5, will be irremediably greater every day. That nail that the blacksmith left out of the horseshoe of King Richard III's horse did not happen by chance. It is that things were already being done wrong long before and ended a 300-year dynasty. One mistake cannot cover up another mistake indefinitely, without consequences. Perhaps what Venezuelans should do is to wait for what must inevitably happen in Venezuela. But a push is never too much.
To insist to whom it may concern that an insult such as the one that the illegitimate one gave to the very roots of our nationality, by spitting on the memory of our heroes, cannot be tolerated. It is as if the military allowed someone on July 5 to urinate on the Venezuelan flag in the courtyard of honor of the Military Academy, the day of his graduation, and that this has no consequences.
But maybe that's what I think, I grew up in the context of a different country, where the memory of our nationality was sacred, both for civilians, and much more for the military. A country that repeated without tiring to its children the phrase of the Liberator "Morals and lights are our first needs", in its eagerness to form upright citizens.
I still maintain the hope that next July 5, the celebration parade will not only be military, but civilian, and headed, not by a parody of a president or his inflatable copy, but by a real and legitimate President, product of the popular will of the country dreamed by those who shed their blood for it, and who were represented with dignity in Los Próceres to never be forgotten again.
Caracas, July 8, 2022
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