By Luis Manuel Aguana
The denounces made recently by the Cuban
dissidence in exile revealed the existence of plans to attack the life of the Venezuelan
opposition leadership (see in Spanish “Avispas Negras” cubanas con orden de
asesinar opositores en Venezuela – Aló Buenas Noches EVTV 24 de Octubre de
2018, en https://youtu.be/iNuOedyw3as). According to these denounces, the attack that occurred in the State
of Bolivar against María Corina Machado is part of this plan designed from
Havana. The denounce specifies that an important contingent of special troops
of the Cuban Army called "Black Wasps", would already be in Venezuela
and would be involved in this attack and possibly others in the near future.
If we complement this with another denounce,
this time by the Venezuelan journalist Gustavo Azocar, the regime would be
openly preparing to resist a possible intervention in the short term: "...The National Direction of the FARC
is installed in Venezuela, it lives in Venezuela. The National Direction of the
Army of National Liberation-ELN, is installed in Venezuela, lives in Venezuela.
In Venezuela we now have the two Colombian guerrillas, the FARC and the ELN.
The country has been divided. How do you explain that the ELN is in the State
of Bolívar controlling the gold mines that exist in the State of Bolívar? How
did that guerrilla from the ELN get to the State of Bolívar? Where did it
enter? It entered through Táchira, of course, and from Táchira it settled on the
other side of Venezuela, with the support, of course, of the government of
Nicolás Maduro. In other words, we have occupation armies in Venezuela. We have
the FARC, we have the ELN, we have the collective La Piedrita, we have the
Tupamaros, we have the Carapaica, we have the Russians, we have the Chinese, we
have Hezbollah installed on Margarita Island. All those groups are in Venezuela
for what? To defend Nicolas Maduro's dictatorship in a plan that they have
supposedly created to defend the revolution when there is foreign military
intervention promoted by the United States and supported by other countries,
for what? To liberate Venezuela, because Venezuela is a country kidnapped at
this moment by all those irregular groups that I have mentioned to you…” (see in Spanish Maduro planea graves atentados y culpar a EEUU – Aló
Buenas Noches EVTV 26 de Octubre de 2018, en https://youtu.be/OFeH9fdlO1c, min 3:16)
What strikes me about this news now is that it is taken as surprising. Journalist Gustavo Azocar's proposal coincides with the concept of kidnapping of Venezuela by heavily armed groups that we have already formulated (see Venezuela: the world's largest hostage kidnapping situation, at https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_85.html) and which forms part of something that has been developing since long before the death of the Galactico in Cuba, and which, in the face of international events, are now needed in more detail for the citizenry, and which should hardly escape the knowledge of the intelligence services of the friendly countries that know the situation in Venezuela very well.
What is amazing to me
and the main reason for this article is that there is still a part of Venezuela
that, even calling what is happening in our country a dictatorship or tyranny,
at this point it still seems scandalous to them that they are capable -and much
more- of what happened to María Corina Machado in Upata, as well as those
denunciations of attacks on the political leadership. That is precisely what
happens in a kidnapping! They reduce you with violence until they kill you, if
that's the case, if you don't agree to the demands. What is happening here is
not a conventional dictatorship where a dictator controls the military and
subjugates the population. No! The criminal group that governs (or desgregates)
has imported the most specialized of international terrorism and has negotiated
its refuge in exchange for protection.
There are several
occupation armies in Venezuela made up of all that denounces the Cuban exile
and journalist Gustavo Azocar, and perhaps much more, and already with name and
surname will be willing to attack the civilian population at the sole order of
the dictator if they try to evict them from power by force from outside. In
fact they are already doing so. Public manifestations are being systematically
reduced by those groups that behead any protest for anything that arises
anywhere in the country.
Now, what's the best
way to handle this situation? Arm ourselves too and bathe the country in blood?
They would love that to justify themselves. To follow any leadership and put
the dead on the streets without the situation changing substantially, but benefiting
the popularity or the image of whoever wants to lead a protest? Remember that
happened on April 11, 2002, and although the blood of the fallen on Baralt
Avenue managed to expel the satrap from Miraflores, the clumsiness and
ambitions of those who handled the situation made it go to waste. The tyranny
mutated and although that has happened again and again, with more blood shed,
it has not yet been vindicated beyond recognition of the bravery and courage of
the Venezuelan population by the world. But that has not been enough.
We are in an unprecedented
situation. We cannot deal with the same molds as any other that has occurred
inside or outside Venezuela. There is no political leadership in the country to
call on Venezuelans to continue spilling blood for nothing. The approach has to
be different. While it is true that there must be an internal strategy that
summons Venezuelans, it cannot be conventional and must be manifested with such
force and magnitude that it keeps the regime permanently in check. This has
happened in cases where the population has rejected the call for
unconstitutional elections such as those of May 20, 2018.
Other elections are
being called again without the slightest guarantee. It is not possible to
continue calling elections in Venezuela without conditions and without changing
the electoral system, as provided for in the ruling of the Electoral Chamber of
the legitimate TSJ of June 13, 2018. (see in Spanish “Tribunal Supremo de Justicia declara nulo el uso del
voto automatizado para elecciones en Venezuela”, en http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2018/06/tribunal-supremo-de-justicia-declara.html).
That can't be accepted anymore! From the
outset we must call for the rejection of any election with this electoral
system, beginning with those of December 9 in the same way as we did for May
20. Any result of that election, or constitutional referendum if it is proposed
by the regime, must be rejected and repudiated by everyone in every possible
way.
Consequently, the
rebellion must be civilian and Nonviolent in its essence but with forceful
results of open and permanent rejection of the dictatorship. We must encourage
and create any manifestation of general rejection that does not subject the population
to the risk of being massacred by these armed criminals. NOT VOTING on December
9 in protest of everything that happens in Venezuela should be an example of
that.
But that does not
solve the kidnapping situation. "We Venezuelans cannot liberate ourselves"
as former Ambassador Diego Arria recently indicated in Spain. (see in Spanish Arria: “Los venezolanos no podemos
auto liberarnos” de lo que sucede en Venezuela, en https://www.sumarium.es/2018/10/26/arria-los-venezolanos-no-podemos-autoliberarnos-de-lo-que-sucede-en-venezuela/).
Kidnapping must be confronted in a different
way. The occupation armies that subjugate us must be withdrawn from our
country, starting with the regular army of the Cuban government. Cuba must
withdraw its military troops from Venezuela. And that will not happen if a
policy of international deterrence is not exercised against that country and
the rest of those who support the regime. In the same way, the situation will
have to be confronted from the outside with the rest of the irregular groups,
starting with the Colombians FARC and ELN, with the support of the new
government of Colombia.
All such dismantling
must be coordinated and organized from outside Venezuela by a legitimate and
constitutional government that can take the necessary steps to unravel this
situation peacefully, backed by the United States as the main ally, followed by
the Latin American democratic community of nations and the European Union. Is
this illusory? I don't think so. It is always possible to give peace a chance
even though we are very close to violence. Let us hope that those who now have
the responsibility of establishing that legitimate and constitutional
government understand the magnitude of this kidnapping and the decisive steps
that must be taken to get out of it.
Caracas, October 28,
2018
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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