There are 14 meanings of the word "baton" in the current version of the Diccionario de la Real Academia Española (DRAE, https://dle.rae.es/testigo?m=form). To which the title of this note refers is No. 12: "12. m. Dep. In relay races, object that in the marked place the runners of the same team exchange, to attest that the substitution has been correctly executed". And what would be the baton in this long race that we have in the country to win the trophy of freedom of Venezuela? Nothing more and nothing less than the opportunity to shake the regime that has oppressed Venezuelans for more than 20 years.
And who passes the baton to us? A tired official opposition that has run out of answers for a country languishing in hunger, misery and frustration, scourged by a failed political system, which unfortunately still shares ideology with the regime in something they call the Socialist International.
In ANCO we proposed to the President and the Government in Charge a path to follow that would involve all Venezuelans in the exercise of their sovereignty, so that they would exercise a mandate DIRECTLY and a course of political action would be ordered through an instrument contemplated in Article 70 of the Constitution, to concretize the three-step mantra announced to the country by the legitimate President in Charge of Venezuela, on January 23, 2019: Cessation of Usurpation, Transition Government and Free Elections, IN THAT ORDER (see in Spanish ANCO informa sobre la reunión sostenida con el Presidente Encargado Juan Guaidó, in https://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2020/09/comunicado-anco-anco-informa-sobre-la.html).
However, the proposal has been little understood by the Venezuelan opposition. It is still very difficult for me to understand why Venezuelans have not yet taken possession of the constitutional text that the same regime imposed to control the country in an assembly-like manner. If there is something Chávez tried to change with the 1999 Constitution, it was that Venezuelans had direct interference in the affairs of the State, without the participation of the Public Powers. And he did this in an artful manner, with the tumultuous idea of governing without control, with the supposedly majority populace that accompanied him. But it turned out that as the quality of life of the country went down, they stopped doing so. But there remained a Constitution where the majorities could DIRECTLY decide their destiny. And that is there dead to rights without the opposition making use of it to assert the cause of freedom.
And the latter is what we have been proposing since May 1, 2017 when Maduro called for a Constituent Assembly without having the authority to do so because for that he needed the permission of the Popular Sovereignty. That is, the approval of the Venezuelan People in a Consultative Referendum. From there was born our idea of a Popular Consultation to decide the destiny of Venezuelans WITHOUT THE PARTICIPATION OF THE PUBLIC POWERS.
The political actors understood the idea half way through, and interestedly called for a Consultation on July 16, 2017, with the following questions, which I will take on the task of dissecting for you so that you can tell me after that if we at ANCO are still proposing to consult the same thing with the Venezuelan people:
1.- DO you REJECT and UNKNOW the realization of a constituent proposed by Nicolás Maduro without the prior approval of the people of Venezuela?
That was the key question of that Popular Consultation. It was aimed at giving a counter-order to the President of the Republic for having convoked a Constituent Assembly without the approval of the People. It could have been done through Article 71 as ANCO requested it from the National Assembly, but if it was done so, the CNE was introduced into the equation. In my modest opinion, a Consultative Referendum should have been requested "by agreement of the National Assembly, approved by the vote of the majority of its members" as clearly established in Article 71 for matters of special national transcendence, to request the derogation of decrees No. 2830 and 2831, and the CNE would have been constitutionally obliged to call it and all Venezuelans would have rejected such call at the risk of being tricked by the Tibisay Lucena machines.
Why was the Consulta Popular held under Article 70 and not Article 71? Because this was the way to introduce the third question below on the substitution of the Public Authorities. As you will see in this question No. 1, THE PEOPLE WERE NOT CONSULTED about the departure of Nicolás Maduro Moros from power, as some shout "that a consultation was already held on 16 July 2017".
2- DO you demand that the FAN and all public officials obey and defend the 1999 Constitution and support the decisions of the National Assembly?
Question in my opinion unnecessary. It is clear that all Venezuelans, and especially the Armed Forces and all public officials, must obey and defend the Constitution. Why was this done? To give a special order to the military to support the result of this Popular Consultation, especially if they were summoned by the National Assembly, the body proposing this instrument. Again, in this question No. 2, THE PEOPLE WERE NOT CONSULTED about the exit of Nicolás Maduro Moros from power, as some shout "that a consultation was already held on 16 July 2017".
3- DO you approve of the renewal of public powers in accordance with the Constitution and the holding of free and transparent elections, as well as the formation of a Government of National Union to restore constitutional order?
This was the most important question for the opposition political sector: the renewal of public powers! The opposition wanted elections! Their problem was not to get rid of a Constituent that would eat up the country, but to go to elections! It was to ask the People if they approved the renewal of the Public Powers through elections. And the People approved! And who was supposed to make that approval effective? The National Assembly! Were the People asked about the exit of Nicolás Maduro Moros from power? NO! A renewal of the Public Powers was approved through elections, which even the regime itself could win by trickery. In what head can it be that the country was already consulted about the immediate exit of Nicolás Maduro Moros from power? Again, in this question No. 3, the people were not consulted about the exit of Nicolas Maduro Moros from power, as they still shout "that a consultation was already made on July 16, 2017”.
Conclusion: Then, where do those who still argue that "we already did a consultation in 2017" get the idea that the people already expressed themselves in relation to Maduro's exit from power? My answer is that it comes from a matrix of opinion created by people interested in covering up what happened that day. But whether it is out of ignorance, out of interest that other alternatives prevail, or to divert the responsibilities that should have been assumed there and were not, there are still many who stubbornly insist that "we already consulted the people on 16J-2017".
And yet, to top it off, Julio Borges, President of the National Assembly on 16J-2017, escaped his responsibility to enforce the people's approval of the Popular Consultation, and especially Question No. 3, which he declared "non-binding". That is, that the People in the DIRECT exercise of their sovereignty, had not approved to proceed with the renewal of the Public Powers, but had only issued an opinion. Greater unconstitutional iniquity, impossible! The people gave the National Assembly express approval of renewal for its execution and they slipped the buck. The leaders eluded the mandate of the people as their mandator, to renew the Public Powers, especially the Executive. That's why if we want to get out of this, from now on there must be a DIRECT exercise and without intermediaries of the Sovereignty. And that's where the story of 16J-2017 ended.
Now, how should a new Consulta Popular be done? In the first place, that the people ORDER DIRECTLY and without intermediaries the Cessation of the Usurpation of Nicolas Maduro Moros, as indicated in the proposed questions put by ANCO to the President in charge. The Popular Sovereignty exercised DIRECTLY as clearly established in Article 5 of the Constitution. But we do not have the guns to enforce it. Well, there enters the International Community that has recognized President Juan Guaidó as legitimate since January 23, 2019, besides being an open order to all Venezuelans invested or not with authority to restore the validity of the Constitution, as also established in Article 333 of the Constitution.
Civil Society already has in its hands the binding witness to solve the country's problem. Let us not waste any more time crying over the spilt milk on 16J-2017. Let us directly exercise the power conferred on us by the Constitution and let us win this race to regain our freedom once and for all.
Caracas, October 16, 2020
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