Por Luis Manuel Aguana
In Venezuela there's an old joke about a guy
who found out his wife was cheating on him. He waited hiding in his house to
catch her in the act with the guy. When the unfaithful woman arrived
accompanied by the guy and began to show herself as she had been thrown into
the world, the wrinkles and folds that his wife had appeared and that only he
believed he knew about after many years of marriage. But instead of facing them
and discovering them, he stayed hidden, ashamed of his wife's physical
condition, in front of the stranger, saying to himself, what a shame with that
guy!
That same feeling crossed my mind when Carlos
Sánchez Berzaín, Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for
Democracy, exposed Juan Guaidó's inaction in the face of what is happening in
Venezuela, explaining in detail how the Interim Government could
institutionally evict the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros by force and with all
the legality in the world (see in Spanish
Presidente Guaidó debe pedir y organizar coalición internacional militar
para liberar a Venezuela, in https://youtu.be/6RB53HlF4BA).
Shame on you for being told that! How is it
possible that the same political conclusion has not been reached in Venezuela
during all the time that Guaidó has been acting as President-in-Charge? The
matter was so forceful that even Citizen Leopoldo Castillo was speechless
because he had no way of disputing that Guaidó had not, until this moment,
proceeded institutionally as the legitimate President of Venezuela by
requesting the international military assistance necessary to dislodge the
mafia of criminals who have taken over the country, as has been recommended to
him many times, not only in Venezuela but also abroad. I have the impression
that Castillo and EVTV, as the communication anchor of the Interim Government,
went for wool and came out shorn. They were trying with that interview to
publicly justify the botched job of the famous contract, using the qualified
opinion of who has been one of the characters who internationally has the most
clear about the Venezuelan problem. And being that Leopoldo Castillo is a
specialist in international issues, he had no choice but to accept that
judgment.
Well, Juan Guaido is definitely not acting in
the way that he should as the legitimate President-in-Charge of Venezuela. To
anyone who has seen that interview, that is more than obvious. But it is
commonplace for Venezuelans to say that he is controlled by the G4 (Henry Ramos
Allup) and the head of his party (Leopoldo López), who have decided for him to
cohabit with Nicolás Maduro Moros, against the grain of what all of us who are
suffering from the narco-socialist hell in Venezuela think. In other words, it
is not Juan Guaidó who decides in the Interim Government for more
President-in-Charge than we can tell you. How does that leave the person of
Juan Guaidó? As a puppet? And I am not just asking myself this.
Leading a military rescue operation for
Venezuela is not just any old thing. It first requires a fundamental political
decision by the person of the President-in-Office and his interim government.
Furthermore, it requires a very special personal determination on the part of
whoever makes that decision, which is far from being that of someone with the
characteristics of a puppet. Do we really have that with Juan Guaidó? If what
we have is a person who allows himself to be managed by others over and above
the serious needs of his compatriots, we must at once face him in Venezuela and
see what the solutions to that problem are.
The official opposition of the G4 has clearly
told us that it is not in a position to take any decision that would confront
the regime by force, and it has been shown that it is because of the multiple
ties that bind them to it that makes it their main protector and ally. If this
is not the case, prove it immediately by moving in the right direction. I would
like nothing more than to be completely wrong.
That's why when we see the reality of the
official Venezuelan opposition laid bare, showing all the ugliness under the
garb of its main leader as the legitimate President, we say, shame on Carlos
Sánchez Berzaín, who like any Latin American would hope that with the historic
tradition of Venezuelan freedom, our political leadership would have assumed an
attitude more in line with that Republican heritage.
When Bolivar went outside Venezuela to seek
the help of foreign soldiers, he was already at the forefront of the struggle
for independence. It wasn't for someone else to release us for payment of a
contract without him having started it himself. He had already put himself at
the head of the liberation struggle. Well, it is something like that that is
being considered in Venezuela. The criminal nature of those who have taken the
population hostage to plunder the country speaks to us of the size of the
decisions that must be taken and the moral and ethical stature of those who
must do so. The big question is, do we Venezuelans have these people at the
forefront of this fight? The harsh reality tells us that we do not.
But if we don't have the right people in
front of us now, that doesn't mean they don't exist. It will then be our duty
and obligation to bring about change because there is a reason why so many
worthy Venezuelans have left their blood on the streets and in the prisons of
this country. It cannot be that we allow those who now have the responsibility
of leading the destiny of an immoral official opposition, which stopped representing
us long ago, to criminally prolong this slaughter in slow motion - Diego Arria dixit - to which Venezuela is subjected.
The Venezuelan situation does not accept
further delays. If the legitimate President does not act, for whatever reason,
by not taking the decisions that are his responsibility, which is UNIQUE AND
PERSONAL, then someone else will have to come and take them. If Juan Guaidó
arrived at that position of President in charge by imperative of Art. 233 of
the Constitution, it will be necessary a pronouncement of the TSJ Legitimo and
the constitutionalists of the country about the unprecedented situation that is
being presented to us with a President who has not fulfilled his obligation to
call elections as required by Art. 233, and we demand it all Venezuelans on
January 23, 2019, after more than a year of having assumed the position.
Someone will have to come and replace him. We will have to give that debate. Enough
with the embarrassment of others...
Caracas, May 14, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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