By Luis Manuel Aguana
Perhaps Venezuelans have heard so much that
criminals rule in Venezuela that this has become commonplace. We always say
that the politicians in the government are thieves and corrupt, that it seems
that this is normal, when obviously it is not. We hope that those who
administer what is everyone's will do so with a minimum of decency and
neatness. In fact, one of the main flags - if not the main one - waved by Hugo
Chávez to win the Presidency of the Republic of Venezuela in 1998 was the
corruption of the binomial adeco-copeyano for 40 years.
But one thing is the corruption of some
administrators who put their hand to the public treasury when they are
government in a certain proportion and another very different is a
multinational criminal corporation with multiple ramifications, among which are
drug trafficking, terrorism and regional destabilization. That is why in the
United States, when the criminal mafias grew during the first years of the last
century, the federal government took charge and strengthened itself, creating
multiple agencies dedicated to pursue until its liquidation, those groups that
were entrenched in the heart of their society to the point of putting it on the
verge of destruction.
This same phenomenon happened in Venezuela
but at extraordinary levels. Corruption went so far as to fracture us as a
society that it is now the "government" that leads the regional
mafia. We call it a "regime" to designate it in some way, but it is a
matter of semantically separating what is in theory an extremely bad government
from a criminal corporation.
The comparison has been repeated multiple
times but it is equally valid: it is as if the head of the Sinaloa cartel
governed Mexico or as if Pablo Escobar Gaviria had come to govern Colombia, or
if in the next movie "The Godfather", the Corleone family had put his
hand to the White House. As a planetary phenomenon this is still under study.
In 2017 I wrote on the subject in a note entitled "For a global problem a
global solution" (see http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_77.html), where he said things like this: It's
not that there are officials bought for the crime, they are the owners of the
business and they also manage the power. From money laundering through our main
industry to the issuance of public bonds. This is a new phenomenon on a global
scale and the trigger for a series of mechanisms that will affect our country
in the very short term.
And unfortunately it affected it, with the
consequences we are seeing at the end of 2019. When I wrote that note in August
2017, I never imagined the famine that was looming in our country, as well as
the massive exodus of Venezuelans never seen before in the Americas. This is
the real context in which we must analyze what the official opposition did when
it made a pact with this multinational criminal corporation, an
"election" through an Agreement in the National Assembly.
In the eyes of the civilized world and of all
countries that recognize the government in charge of Juan Guaidó Márquez,
Maduro and his mafia must dislodge power at its roots so that Venezuela can
retake the constitutional thread and shake the economic suffering of
Venezuelans. The criminals, starting with the cartel bosses, must be where the
criminals are: in a prison, here or abroad, condemning them for their crimes,
especially those against humanity. That must be understood by those who call
themselves the legitimate government headed by Juan Guaidó. If they do not
"understand" it, it will immediately mean that they are an active
part of the problem, and it will be interpreted that they were bought or always
belonged to the mafia that reigns in Venezuela.
To those who see it as "normal" to
reach an electoral agreement with that mafia because we are civilized and we
don't want a massacre among Venezuelans, I'm sorry to spoil your Walt Disney
movie. The suffering of Venezuelans will not cease because evil is at the root
of the problem. It reminds me of the anecdote of the scorpion and the frog
crossing the river. After an agreement like that of the National Assembly where
the frog promised to take the scorpion in peace to the other shore without
being attacked, the scorpion bites the frog in the middle of the current. And
while both were drowning, to the question of the frog as to why it had done so
since both would die, the scorpion answered that it was in its nature to sting
it. They cannot stop being what they are because they agree to go to an
election. In fact they will fix them as they have done in 20 years because they
are criminals. Ramos Allup will say he prefers that to a coup. Isn't it because
he's part of that mafia? Well, I don't prefer it, as do the rest of
Venezuelans, as all the public opinion studies carried out to date have shown.
That arrangement goes against the wishes of the majority of Venezuelans.
The big question to the forgers of that
Agreement is whether the 22,000 Cubans, or the Russians, Chinese and Iranians
who support the regime, will leave the country, or whether they will leave the
drug trafficking business, or whether the armed bands of the ELN and the FARC
will evict the Venezuelan territory, or whether they will abandon the Plan de
la Patria containing the communist postulates of the Cuban revolution.
However, this agreement comes within the
framework of the largest selective bottleneck operation that any regime has
ever undergone on the part of the international community, in particular the
United States, and which will ultimately destroy the regime's aspirations to
remain in power. (see in
Spanish the Casto Ocando's article “La Guerra silenciosa de los Estados
Unidos y la “Paciencia Estratégica” in Primer Informe, https://primerinforme.com/index.php/2019/07/07/cuaderno-de-notas-la-guerra-silenciosa-de-estados-unidos-detras-la-paciencia-estrategica/). It's like a kind of radiotherapy and
chemotherapy together with this cancer that eats Venezuela, and all of us are
having a very bad time because of the side effects. Do Guaidó (and his boss
López), Ramos, Borges and Rosales really believe that the therapy will be
suspended because they reached an "agreement" with a mafia? Please!
They know that won't solve the problem but they sell to the Venezuelans that
Maduro will go to an election with them, even if he is not a candidate, that
they will lose, and they will give them power, and we will all be happy forever
as in fairy tales. What do you think? What are stupid innocent people or are
they in the stew? Experience tells me that it's more the second than the
first...
Seen this way, how would a Popular Plebiscite
Consultation be understood in this complex context? Let's
see.
In Venezuela, all the referents were lost.
And when I say all, it is all. The institutions, the political parties, the
economic system, the currency, everything. Everything you can think of is
compromised by the criminal behavior of the regime and its actions. It's not
just an ideological issue, it's about survival. We are already living the law
of the strongest of the jungle in some regions of the country. Whoever is
armed, let them solve. That's what we've come to. It's not that Maduro is in
power, it's that everything is compromised, including those who negotiate for
us. That is why this representation is no longer credible to anyone, no matter
how much the people elected the majority on 6D-2015, which is like saying the
last century. These reasons make it imperative to call for the base on which
every country is built: its Sovereign People.
If the US strategy of strangulation without
international intervention is working, why not make it work in our favour? If
the G4 and the regime's accomplices negotiated the survival of Maduro and his
criminals, forcing Venezuelans into an election that we know will lengthen our
suffering indefinitely, we are all duty bound to assume the re-establishment of
the Constitution that is described in Article 333 of the Constitution.
And it is based on that constitutional
foundation that we tell the International Community that the participatory
structure of our Constitution empowers us as a collective and as a civil
society to decide what to do with our country once the regime is no longer
sustained. In fact, once we decide, the regime will inevitably fall. But for
this we need your support of institutional strength. If the International Community
understands that by imposing on Nicolás Maduro a plebiscite without the
participation of any of the committed powers of the regime, to negotiate the
sanctions and its exit for the establishment of a Transitional Government and
free elections, after having fumigated the CNE, power will be institutionally
transferred to whoever the people decide in that Popular Plebiscite
Consultation. It would be the decision of Popular Sovereignty. This is what
everyone has said, from the European Community, through the Lima Group, Donald
Trump and up to Vladimir Putin.
It would not be with a hidden negotiation
that is extremely dubious, nor with agreements that nobody understands. It
would be with a Popular Plebiscite Consultation organized by the same
Venezuelans suffering from this cancer, with the help of friendly countries,
and to be applied immediately. That is our proposal, which is reaffirmed after
the betrayal of those who said they represented our interests but forgot that
we Venezuelans can directly exercise our sovereignty. The
International Community has the floor.
Caracas, October 4, 2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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