By Luis Manuel Aguana
As a civil society
organization, we participated as a National Constituent Alliance (ANCO), from
its origins in the Soy Venezuela Alliance, an initiative founded by María
Corina Machado, Diego Arria and Antonio Ledezma, with the intention of giving a
political response to the fundamental differences presented with the parties
integrated in the MUD, and now in the MUD-Frente Amplio, and which are
manifested through formulas that reveal an open collaborationism with the
regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros. In this sense, both Alliances have coincided in
public positions in transcendental matters such as the application of the
Principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) in Venezuela.
In this sense, the
National Constituent Alliance (ANCO) and its main founding members at the
national level, together with a distinguished group of independent citizens,
promoted from April 19, the anniversary of the Declaration of our Independence,
the debate of a Popular Consultation, (see http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2019/04/cese-de-la-usurpacion-y-cumplimiento.html) so that it would be the people of
Venezuela themselves, in DIRECT exercise of their sovereignty (Article 5 of the
Constitution) who would decide in relation to a matter that concerns them, and
not through their representation, so that the International Community would
help us militarily to bring humanitarian aid into the country, and at the same
time be present to stop the crimes against humanity committed without any
impunity by the regime of Nicolas Maduro Moros, without anyone in Venezuela
being able to respond to them because they possess the force of arms.
That call was
reiterated last May 14 by the Consultative Council of Soy Venezuela, once again
urging the International Community to be present with the Responsibility to
Protect (R2P) in the Venezuelan case, and the National Assembly to activate
article 187, numeral 11 of the Constitution (see in Spanish Comunicado Soy
Venezuela reitera su llamado a la comunidad internacional de poner en marcha de
manera inmediata el mecanismo de la Responsabilidad de Proteger y a la Asamblea
Nacional que urgentemente proceda a la activación del artículo 187-11
constitucional, in https://t.co/adw1R0iAT0).
Now, I give this
previous explanation because institutionally civil society in its different
expressions has manifested itself in favor of the activation of the
International Community's R2P Principle over the reticence of its political
leadership, and in some cases with a representative sample of almost 5,000
Venezuelan signatures in Venezuela and around the world to activate that
Consultation of the Venezuelan people based on the principle of the
Responsibility to Protect (R2P) (see petition in http://chng.it/jhtctxLH). But beyond that, as a direct call from Venezuelans
to political leadership to proceed with the activation of article 187, numeral
11, without having any response so far.
We have waited for
this response from our deputies because they are the legitimate representation
of the unique Venezuelan institution recognised by the world. However, that
does not imply that it is necessary. It must be explained that Venezuelans and
the entire world have been sold that because Article 187, paragraph 11, is not
approved in the National Assembly, the military aid of the International
Community is not being approved. The deputies of the National Assembly have
kidnapped that approval of 187#11 as the alcabala of a humanitarian
intervention in Venezuela, above what Venezuelans are demanding.
And why do I say
this? Because the international community DOES NOT REQUIRE an authorization to
intervene when a country's human rights are violated, because that
authorization was given to themselves by the nations of the world when they
approved in the 2005 UN General Assembly the Principle of the Responsibility to
Protect (R2P), and those international agreements are law in Venezuela by the
Constitution. Likewise, the R2P Agreement is above the Principle of Sovereignty
when the country in question has been demonstrated, as is our case, the
commission of Crimes against Humanity
and Genocide, as is the case in Venezuela with the deliberate famine, the
massive death of newborn children in hospitals, the extermination of indigenous
groups, and the persecution and forced disappearance of political opponents.
So why is everyone
paralyzed because the Assembly refuses to approve article 187, paragraph 11?
Because with this story the deputies control that "they" are the ones
who will "give way" to a Humanitarian Intervention in Venezuela when
that is not true. They do not have that control. In any case, their approval of
187#11 will be a demonstration to the world that they finally agree with the
Humanitarian Intervention, something that will hardly happen, because at this
moment they are negotiating again with the regime in Norway (see note in
Spanish, in https://noticiasdevenezuela.co/2019/05/15/noruega-recibe-a-representantes-de-oposicion-y-de-gobierno-de-venezuela-en-intento-de-acercamiento/).
Then we find
ourselves in dangerous terrain. The entire country refuses to negotiate elections
with murderers and delinquents, while our representatives ignore their
obligation to listen to the people who voted for them. Can a transitional
government be stable whose base of sustenance is vitiated by the lack of
original legitimacy that only the Venezuelan people can give? How does a
transitional government get the necessary popular support for the
implementation of difficult public policies that will be necessary in the
coming years, if starting that government is accompanied by those who massacred
the Venezuelan people? As Montaner says in a recent note: "It is bread
for today and hunger for tomorrow. Thirty years after the 1990 elections Daniel
Ortega and Sandinismo continue to gravitate on Nicaragua, while 21st Century
Socialism remains in that country, in Venezuela and in Bolivia orchestrated by
Havana" (see in Spanish, Carlos Alberto Montaner, “Venezuela y el
peligroso modelo nicaragüense” en http://www.elblogdemontaner.com/venezuela-y-el-peligroso-modelo-nicaraguense/). The official opposition is about to take us down that road, seeking
bread for today but letting Venezuelans go hungry now and tomorrow too, driven
by the interests of corruption. We Venezuelans have the word...
Caracas, May 15, 2019
Email:
luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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