From some years working in the C.A. Metro de Caracas, and even more in the struggle from the civil society for the improvement of this state enterprise destroyed like the rest of the country, I learned the term "derailment" of a train. This is one of the most dangerous events for passengers and train operators inside a Metro tunnel. It means that the system is no longer in control of what is happening because the train went off the rails for some reason and the inertia can cause it to crash into the tunnel walls causing a fire that kills passengers. The derailment of a train in the open would have the same or worse consequences of death and destruction as the train would come off the tracks and overturn, losing the cargo and the lives of the passengers.
Venezuela is in a similar situation. The country had been riding on institutional rails that resisted as much as they could the advances of the destruction of a regime that has subverted the constitutional order, achieving that in Venezuela there is no legitimate constitutional power in the country. Neither the illegitimate Presidency of the Republic of Maduro since his illegal election on May 20, 2018, nor the National Assembly illegally elected on December 6, 2020, nor the illegitimate Supreme Court of Justice that dispatches in an unconstitutional manner with Magistrates persecuted in exile, nor a legitimate Citizen Power, nor a legitimate Electoral Power precisely as a consequence of the illegitimacy of the previous ones, derailed Venezuela.
The country derailed because its institutional rails were destroyed by the regime. The effort to rescue a null institutionalism through an unsustainable Presidency-in-Charge in the country has not been successful to the point that it has ended in a "Memorandum of Understanding" clearly written by the regime and endorsed by the official opposition, which has agreed to attend regional elections without even having negotiated conditions in Mexico, which was one of the reasons that justified its presence there in the first place.
Now, if we have a derailed train -Venezuela- what should be the main concern of those who seek to return the country to normality? To pick up the people and the cargo that was overturned in the derailment using donkey carts, or to put the train back on its rails, even if it is crashed, to continue the life of the country? That is the big difference between those of us who seek the CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION of the institutions and those who think it is better to continue the journey on a donkey. The latter will not get very far because their problem is not to save the cargo and the people who were derailed by the train but to encourage the lucrative business of the carts pulled by beasts. In this they are accompanied by the regime, which in the first place was the one that dynamited the institutional rails so that the train would derail.
Of course people are in the middle of nowhere and want someone to figure out how to get back on track. Then the options of donkey carts or putting the train back on its tracks appear. The first option looks more immediate even though it does not solve the underlying problem of recovering the train and its direction, deepening the problem because it is not designed to solve what was the cause of the derailment in the first place. An election for any kind of public office does not solve the fact that governors and mayors are of no use in a country with an authoritarian regime that has militarized and impoverished all the regions of the country by criminally centralizing the means of subsistence of the citizens. These are the donkey carts of the opposition surrendered to the regime.
On the other hand, there are those of us who tell the country that the broken rails must be rebuilt and the train must be put back on them in order to continue on its way. That option is not as difficult as it is portrayed by those who have the donkey cart business. However, it assumes that everyone, including those who have profited from the donkey cart business and those who dynamited the rails in the first place, understand that it is better for everyone - including them - that we do what needs to be done to keep the train called Venezuela on its way. And that after that happens, they can all go back to whatever business they want because the country will already be on the rails again.
The approach of ANCO and of all those signatories of the Constitutional Reestablishment Pact grouped in the Conference for the Constitutional and Democratic Reestablishment and its Governing Council, is to work so that together we can put the train back into operation on new institutional rails that can only take place when we summon the Venezuelan people to a Constituent process of an Original nature. It is said to be easy but it is not so in the current state of affairs.
We insist that this process at this moment in the life of the country must be convened as a result of a negotiation between all those involved: Venezuelan civil society, the official opposition, the regime and the International Community, especially those countries whose interests are directly affected by the serious Venezuelan crisis, such as Colombia, the main recipients of the migratory wave unleashed by the political, economic and social destruction of the country.
That would be the picture of a new dialogue table with the real actors of the problem: those causing the problem (the regime), those affected (the civil society), the internationally recognized political representation (the MUD and Juan Guaidó) and the International Community (acting sanctions). It would not be a dialogue between a supposed and non-existent "Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" not recognized as legitimate by Venezuelans but de facto armed actors of this problem (like the FARC in Colombia), and the "Unitary Platform of the Opposition" that does not even represent 10% of Venezuelans grouped in political parties, but symbolically recognized by the International Community.
Consequently, we have to broaden the approach to this problem and include those of us who are really interested in a negotiation for Venezuela if there is a political solution. So far, those who are there are those who broke the rails and those who are benefiting because the train has derailed. The day will dawn and we will see if the International Community, starting with the USA, is interested in continuing with a country with the cargo and the people riding on donkey carts or on a rebuilt train on new rails to start a new route to democracy and freedom.
Caracas, September 4, 2021
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