By Luis Manuel Aguana
March 26, 2020 marked a milestone in
Venezuela's political history and unfortunately, a coronavirus in the middle,
it seems to have passed under the table of Venezuelan political actors. We have
repeated so much that Maduro and his clique are a narco-criminal mafia that
when the U.S. Department of Justice recognizes it with evidence in hand after
10 years of criminal investigations, politicians in Venezuela still consider
co-government with them. I repeat, on March 26, those who illegitimately
exercise power in our country were identified as international criminals. And
that definitely changes the approach that everyone should take to the issue of
the succession of power in Venezuela.
How have we been treating him at ANCO? For
us, succession was to be treated as a political problem. Since May 1, 2017,
when the drug lordship presided over by Nicolás Maduro Moros called for a
National Constituent Assembly without having the quality to do so, and
supplanting the People's Sovereignty, the Original National Constituent
Alliance, ANCO, I am raising the flag of a Popular Consultation organized by
the citizens, based on Articles 5, 70 and 333 of the Constitution, so that the
Venezuelan people would make a statement to stop this fraud that would harm us
all, as the only solution that we had left as Venezuelans not invested with
authority.
The Popular Consultation that we proposed in 2017 and that achieved
incomplete results on July 16 of the same year, was transformed into an
instrument of peaceful struggle that ANCO adopted so that the people would
decide the permanence of Nicolas Maduro Moros and his regime in power, basing
our argument on the fact that this solution would be assumed by the
International Community, with Venezuela's civil society at the forefront, as
the only peaceful way in which the People's Sovereignty would decide and
administer electorally the mandate of Venezuelans outside the Public Powers,
and as a mechanism that would allow for a constitutional, peaceful and
electoral solution to the regime that governs Venezuela.
Aware of how extraordinarily difficult it was
to convince the international community of this solution, and especially when
the official opposition, whose interests have proven not to be the same as
those of the Venezuelans, having the advantage of being the only voice heard
abroad, we set out to make the pertinent contacts outside the country so that
our main spokespersons could explain this solution which had already been
informed to the Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro. It was not easy to
do that. Without resources, with the borders blocked, without passports,
without visas, you can imagine if our voice would be heard with sufficient
clarity and strength by the decision makers of the main countries that are
friends of the Venezuelan people. But we still set out to do it, and we were at
it until March 26, 2020. All that changed from that
day on. That is why ANCO made a statement on March 28, 2020 (see in Spanish,
Comunicado ANCO a todos los venezolanos, El Gran Cambio, en http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2020/03/comunicado-anco-todos-los-venezolanos.html).
If our proposal was essentially based on the
main international factors, led by the United States, assuming the People's
Sovereignty of the Venezuelans as support for the displacement of the power of
Maduro and his criminals, his Department of Justice went ahead and gave them
that support. The decision of the United States Department of Justice
transformed a political problem into a police and/or criminal one. In this
sense, the actions to remove these people from power in Venezuela should be
carried out by the national and international justice system.
Where
does that leave ANCO? Our position as of May 3, 2017 remains the same: "Let
us counteract the force of the Original Constituent Power to the pretension of
power of a regime, which, by sullying a tool that only belongs to the People of
Venezuela, tries to use it to subdue them, destroying their freedom".
And so we manifest it to the Nation that day by rejecting the so-called
Constituent of Nicolás Maduro Moros (see in Spanish Pronunciamiento de la ANC ante el
llamado a una Asamblea Nacional Constituyente del Gobierno, in http://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2017/05/pronunciamiento-de-la-anc-ante-el.html).
While it is
true that at ANCO we support the consultative route as a temporary instrument
for the country to recover its institutionality and achieve the "cessation
of the usurpation", through the call of the People's Sovereignty, now and
with more reason, immediately after the displacement of the power of the
criminals that have already been officially identified internationally, The
Sovereign People of Venezuela must be called to a Popular Consultation so that
the People can authorize the call for an authentic and constitutional Original
National Constituent Assembly as the best tool to unite the country, for
reconciliation in justice, to make the Big Change for the
reinstitutionalization of the State and the full validity of freedom and
justice.
This call
from ANCO is not new. It has been the main reason for our constitution as an
NGO, because we consider that the institutional, political, economic and social
recomposition of this destroyed country is absolutely necessary. It is not
possible that we leave to the political factors that come to govern a
complacent state structure that allows them to do what they want with the lives
of Venezuelans. And that we must do before we begin a new institutional period
of the country after any electoral process. Remember me: political factors will
tell us that it is not necessary, that they return to the burden of "the
madmen of the constituent with an unnecessary constituent, because we have had
26 constitutions". And now is when
it is most needed!
The citizens
must control what comes next by calling the Constituent and restoring the
institutions that constitutionally balanced the Executive, and that the laws
are not in the hands of the political populism of the corrupt, but of the
institutionality of the representation of the States in a Senate of the
Republic. That the Municipalities and the States have the necessary power for
their development and the right to exercise it, and that this is
constitutionally provided for, starting with a thorough reform of the
destination of oil and oil income in the lives of Venezuelans. We have an
obligation to begin now to defend our future after this nightmare.
There are
many institutional reforms required by the Venezuelan State after the
destructive Castro-Chávez-Madurista tsunami, including a complete review of the
powers of the President of the Republic. We have spoken about this many times
in this Chamber, but we will return to it because this Big Change is not only
important, but absolutely necessary for the survival of Venezuela after the
transition.
Caracas, 6 April 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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