The events on the island of Cuba have raised a new hope for those of us who face the virus of Castro communism in Latin America. Thousands of people in the streets of the different cities of that country subdued for more than 60 years, certainly give the perception that things can change drastically as it happened with the wall that was erected to divide the two Germanies during the Cold War, to the point that already the social networks repeat tirelessly that "Cuba is the Berlin Wall of Latin America. If the Castro's fall, we all fall". https://twitter.com/JoJakubowicz/status/1414376591891877890).
And as it has been scientifically studied "perception is reality". Already in Venezuela everyone is repeating the "Latin American Berlin Wall" hoping that when the Cuban tyranny falls, ours will fall like a sort of dominoes standing in single file. No one but me wishes for that to happen. But we are Venezuelans, and by common cultural experience we know that we like solutions to come not from our own efforts but from those of others, without stopping to consider the details that reality is not necessarily found in that perception. And that makes that any nascent effort to get out of what is happening to us in Venezuela is delayed "to see what ends up happening in Cuba".
Cuban tyranny, trained in the methods of the former Soviet Union and East Germany, was the main mentor of the tyranny of Hugo Chávez Frías and now of Nicolás Maduro Moros. Cubans are fighting for their freedom, as they should be, and we must do the same. Already the reactions of the Cuban regime to this gesture of its people desperately seeking their freedom, point to a massacre that we will only know in its magnitude once freedom is achieved on the island, adding more deaths to the long suffering of the Cuban people.
If the Cuban people had a country with the geographical position that ours has, there would have been no one left in its territory, as is happening in Venezuela. But no, young and old have been locked up since 1959 in a large concentration camp, surrounded by the waters of the Caribbean. Sooner or later, this pressure cooker will end up bursting in the face of the Cuban communists. What we saw was only the beginning of the cracking of that pot and the communists began to mend it with the blood of those who cracked it. If the Díaz Canel regime had any understanding of the passage of time and the profound consequences of what has just happened, it would take a turn towards a new political situation, more in tune with that reality. But they will not do so since they are tied to the decimononic designs of a couple of old men who are already history, one of them dead and the other about to die.
The Venezuelan regime, having made the political reality of Venezuela dependent on that of Cuba, followed the repressive reactions of escape forward taken by the Cuban tyranny with its reality, and these are beginning to manifest themselves in our country with the persecution of the leadership of the official opposition, throwing away the proposal for dialogue of the Government in Charge with its National Salvation Plan. If Maduro follows the instructions of his Cuban bosses in this escape forward, he will also be accelerating his fall, but also counting the persecuted and dead that this entails.
This puts the rest of Venezuelans in the first square, where the only thing that can be visualized for the near future as a solution to the serious problems of Venezuelans are illegitimate Regional Elections, with a briefcase opposition (full of dollars) at the convenience of the regime. Will that be our fate? To accept the permanent failure of those who still claim to be our representatives before an International Community that insists that we have the obligation to agree on a negotiated solution with the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros?
No matter how much we insist that we are dealing with criminals running a country, we cannot ignore the treatment given to them by the International Community, knowing this situation. The Joint Declaration on Venezuela, the last piece played by the International Community to make both the regime and the opposition react, insists to achieve “substantive, credible advancements to restore core democratic processes and institutions in Venezuela and are willing to review sanctions policies based on meaningful progress in a comprehensive negotiation” (see US-EU-Canadá: Joint Statement on Venezuela, in https://www.state.gov/u-s-eu-canada-joint-statement-on-venezuela/).
Those of us who are in the democratic struggle to solve the suffering of Venezuelans cannot leave that aside. The same statement indicates that “The peaceful solution to that deep political, social, and economic crisis has to come from the Venezuelan people themselves through Venezuelan-led, comprehensive negotiations with participation from all stakeholders”. AND WE ARE STAKEHOLDERS.
If the official opposition represented by the Government in Charge failed in its electoral approach with the regime for free, fair and verifiable Presidential elections (an approach that we know will not solve the crisis because the whole system of public powers is destroyed), due to Maduro's kick to the table as instructed by his bosses in Havana, no matter how much we perceive that the Cuban regime is falling, we cannot let things remain frozen in Venezuela. The failure of the negotiations due to the rebound of what is happening in Cuba rather leaves us as civil society in a better position to make bold proposals within the framework of what the International Community pointed out in its joint statement, leading the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros to sit down to negotiate nothing other than his exit, but with the appropriate interlocutors. And if it is true that the Latin American Berlin Wall will indeed fall down, we had all better do it very soon...
Caracas, July 16, 2021
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