By Luis Manuel Aguana
18 years after a massacre.
In honor of the victims of April 11, 2002
What I am going to say will sound harsh: in
Venezuela, unlike the rest of the countries in the world, all political actors
are using the Chinese plague COVID-19 to avoid doing their part. One could not
expect less from the regime, by using the coronavirus as an excuse, they hide
the widespread human rights abuses, to the point of submitting entire
populations to the FARC and ELN militias. This has just been demonstrated by
the episode of the nun who confronted the ELN guerrillas in Capacho, Táchira
State, where the regime's associated guerrillas intended to convert a Catholic
school into a refuge for people returning from Colombia (see in Spanish, En
Táchira una monja enfrentó a un guerrillero del ELN para defender su colegio, https://www.el-carabobeno.com/en-tachira-una-monja-enfrento-a-un-guerrillero-del-eln-para-defender-su-colegio/).
Instead of transferring these people to their
states of origin as should be done in any civilized operation, the regime
intends to use the border states militarily controlled by its Colombian
guerrilla associates, as concentration camps, without any conditions to retain
the mass of population that is being returned to Venezuela. Why do they do
this? Because they have no way of controlling this problem and they make it
exponentially worse by using the COVID-19 as an excuse, creating pockets of
crime because there is no way of keeping large numbers of people without the
minimum services for their confinement in quarantine. The ELN and FARC
guerrillas function as the Nazi guards of the concentration camps they are
beginning to create at the borders.
You will say "but if there are probably
coronaviruses in those people, how can those potential carriers of the virus be
brought to the rest of the states of Venezuela?" Well, the regime isn't giving
a damn about the health condition of these people. They are taking people like
animals to these forced shelters, like the case of that school in Capacho,
without food and without adequate sanitary facilities. And if they are
infected, they will not have medical treatment because no one will know because
that area is controlled by irregular forces. The violation of human rights is
astronomical.
The regime has no fuel for the people and
even less for those who are fighting the Chinese plague, only for those who can
repress, that is the police and the military, and they fear that the risk of
contamination will reach the rest of the states. If they can be moved and are
contaminated, at least the people who are arriving would have a chance in their
respective states of origin by being reported. But that unfortunately will not
happen in an environment controlled by the Colombian guerrillas. That's
what's behind the Capacho nun incident.
According to reports from the regime's
representative in Táchira, Freddy Bernal, a caravan of between 3,000 and 5,000
Venezuelans who are returning from Ecuador and Colombia is approaching (see in
Spanish, Bernal: Por la frontera se espera llegada de venezolanos de Ecuador y
Colombia, en https://lanacionweb.com/regional/bernal-por-la-frontera-se-espera-llegada-de-venezolanos-de-ecuador-y-colombia/) and intend to hold them forcibly in Táchira with the ELN and FARC
guerrillas, turning that entity into a large concentration camp. Knowing the
libertarian nature of the gochos, we will soon see how this will go.
The regime's crude and dangerous remedy for
treating this COVID-19 tragedy on the border with Colombia will be worse than
the disease. Of all the people who are returning, there will be no way to
control who is and who is not contaminated, and sooner or later they will end
up integrating into the rest of the population because no one will be confined
to the border states except at the high cost of repression and death.
Is it
with Cubans and Chinese that the regime intends to stop this possible tragedy
in Táchira, tinged with the associated repression of the Colombian guerrillas?
Does Bernal have all the campaign infrastructure and resources that the
Colombians in Cúcuta had to deal with this human sea that appeared overnight on
the Colombian border? It is difficult for the Cubans - who are living in
Venezuela like parasites on our ribs - and even less so for the Chinese who
have their own problems with the COVID-19 they themselves invented. They will
run over the people of Táchira, as was the case with that nun from Capacho, and
they will destroy the rest of the infrastructure that remains of that brave
state. There's a potential time bomb on the border catalyzed by COVID-19.
And what is the official opposition doing in
the face of all this tragedy, other than saying that they want to live with
these criminals politically, as was officially stated by Deputy José Guerra on
a television program? Using the COVID-19 as an excuse to reach a political
agreement with the regime under the umbrella of the American proposal of a
government of cohabitation. This is unacceptable to the population, who have
rejected it in a very clear way.
And while in the country the humanitarian
situation of the people grows exponentially every day, the least of our
problems will be COVID-19. The biggest problem for Venezuelans continues to be
the regime and its official opposition, who are using the Chinese plague as an
excuse for, the first to hide the criminal failure of their administration and
keep the population under control with a globally accepted excuse; and the
second to avoid having to do something concrete (among other reasons because
they are his accomplices) that at once assumes that the only way to adequately
fight that Chinese plague is to expel these criminals from power (as the cost
failure to do so will be immensely superior), and subsequently seeking urgent
and immediate international assistance. That is our true tragedy, not COVID-19.
However the reality is stubborn. We are fast approaching a point where
Venezuela has no other solution than to finish facing that reality, but many
lives will be lost on the way there. And those factors of force that - inside
or outside the country - first arrive at that conclusion, would have to deal of
what remains of Venezuela.
Caracas, April 11, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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