I have always pointed out in my notes, that the opinions I state in this blog are my own, not those of the organizations to which I belong, or rather in which I make common cause with prominent Venezuelans, whom I joined at some point to push common ideas or a project that we consider important for the future of Venezuela. The clarification is valid, because of what I am going to say next.
When I say the future of Venezuela, I am referring to the future of its youth, of those who will build on the rubble left by this tyranny, because at this point I cannot say it for myself, nor for those of us who have invested our last productive years fighting against the destruction they have made of our country. I have been in practice dedicated to civil society struggles for 20 years -since 2002- when, as a high manager of a state-owned company, I was fired for political reasons. I had never been fired from any place because, without false modesty, I was always, if not the best, one of the best at what I did.
I have always commented that personally I am a trained executive (I also studied for that) and in such condition I have believed that whoever takes charge of this country cannot only be an individual loaded with good intentions. He has to know how to do something very well, not only in his field, but in life. He has to be a qualified professional and have had a job in any area - in my judgment for at least 20 years continuously - and have had bosses who have supervised him, and preferably, have once in his life paid a payroll of his own, because that gives the real perspective of a responsibility over others, since in the worst case scenario, if things go wrong, you have to take it out of your own pockets.
It was in those 20 years, when for the first time I personally met a politician, beyond watching him on television like everyone else, I have been separating the wheat from the chaff, trying to understand the motivations that move them. And in all cases, invariably, they always showed, from the outside, an interest in what happens to Venezuelans. And it is clear that in practice this is not the case, which makes you have to look very closely before trusting anyone, because in practice it is true, in the vast majority of them, that what they seek is to position themselves above everyone and everything, in a position of power.
But beware! Once you have it, what guides you to apply it badly, regularly or well will depend on your own personal value framework (in almost all cases unknown) and on your (unproven) disposition to desire the welfare of others, and not to enjoy for yourself what comes with that power (always to be checked). This is not counting if, as I said before, he knows how to do something that in his experience he can successfully apply to that work.
Not easy, is it? If we put all the politicians we know today (of course, with their always few exceptions) in a blender, we will hardly have a minimum quality that resembles in any way that of those who founded what today we call "our nationality". This caused me a lot of sadness when I got to know them more closely, and made me become more familiar with a broader universe such as that of civil society, which, as we know, also has its own difficulties.
In this situation of inversion of personal and republican values, we could hardly "choose" to "represent us" a current politician by the label they present, as they pretend to do in the official opposition, in a process of "primaries", and even less if it is a reduced number of people, known only for their public statements, chest beating for the country, or because they are simply promoted by parties that lost all credibility before Venezuelans.
At this point, the rabid accusers of "anti-politics" must be frying me in a frying pan. And that is the problem. In Venezuela, the concept of politics has been lost. The lofty word of the classics that links the power relations between individuals, and that points to the genuine concern for others, as well indicated by Savater, no longer exists in the Venezuela of the regime. It has reached the serious point where nobody -and even less these pseudo-politicians- care about anyone else but themselves. We gave them the mandate in a Popular Consultation in December 2020 to put an end to the usurpation, and now, the one we entrusted with the main responsibility of that task, is going to measure himself in primaries for elections with a regime he once did not recognize. Fuck, the Spaniards would say?
So, the matter is serious, complex and very deep. And in the middle of the road, some more lively people, looking for profit in troubled waters, try to involve personalities considered honorable so that they become part of an Electoral Commission of primaries, as if to make people say that this process will be clean, in a sort of moral lining for those who would be elected. In other words, if those who are considered honorable, lend themselves to this process, which already has a nauseating odor, then the pre-candidates must be "honorable" as well. Bad transitivity...
By now, the supposed members of the proposed Electoral Commission for these primaries should be disassociating themselves from this electoral nonsense, unless they are unfortunately part of the scam, for which they would clearly not qualify as honorable. But the seriousness of the scheme is not the fact that they have gone ahead to put forward some honorable name. No. What is serious is to try to cover with this the intrinsic weakness of a process that does not hold up, because it insists on claiming to represent the Venezuelan people, when the parties, especially the opposition parties, no longer have such representation. According to the CATI Verdad Venezuela Survey from August 20 to 22, 2022, by the pollster MEGANÁLISIS, only 3.5% of Venezuelans belong to an opposition political party, 6.1% belong to the regime's party, leaving 90.4% independent (see in Spanish Meganálisis Survey, August 2022, in https://t.co/cSd3BVdBHo).
It cannot be that more than 90% of Venezuelans turn their backs on those who say they are doing politics. Since there is no such connection, then they are not doing politics, but something else very different and the citizens perceive it very clearly. What remains then is to summon all Venezuelans to recover politics, to rescue the representation that politics implies through the parties, to reinstitutionalize the Republic. In other words, to REFOUND THE NATION. And that is what I am permanently trying to convey to Venezuelans. It is not possible to continue to follow an electoral path because for that to be possible, politics, politicians and parties with a capital P, in its best sense, must exist, and these, as we have seen and measured, have already disappeared from Venezuela. And when that happens, everything has to be started from scratch. Consequently, it is time to summon the Constituent...
Caracas, September 22, 2022
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