Contrary to what most may think, the majority parties of the official opposition gave this Christmas their best gift to Venezuelans: to reveal their true intentions. But they did not do it on purpose. It was rather the natural process of decomposition to which all those who pretend to be someone they are not are subjected to, and the only way to achieve their goal is by revealing their true intentions. This is the key moment of the film's plot, where the villain confronts his victim face to face with the gun in his hand, in a clear disposition to take his life.
But that moment is not bad in itself. It is the moment of revelation. It is the precise moment where the roles are clear to everyone, where the villain takes off the mask he had used throughout the plot and tells the world: this is me, my true essence, and I openly intend to kill the protagonist, to keep anything that represents the continuation of the life of the one who is at the forefront of the story.
But the central issue here is not the precise moment of the revelation, but what will happen next, although this milestone is mandatory and crucial for the final outcome, and constitutes, in my opinion, a gift, since it is a firm indicator of where we are standing. It definitely helps us to decide what to do in the future.
And although we do not remember it that way, something similar happened on 4F-1992, when after years of covering up as democrats, the military felons and coup plotters finally revealed to everyone their true intentions and showed themselves to the world as they were, and with the excuse of "saving the country" decided -thank God without success- to carry out a coup d'état, which included killing the President of the Republic and his family in their official residence. In the end they succeeded, after the political death of the person they could not overthrow with weapons. And they were able to achieve it thanks to a little help from the same political class that is now leading the Interim Government of Juan Guaidó to the scaffold.
Chávez was the direct and indirect product of those who now say that they do not need a Government in Charge. Unfortunately, when the identity of those responsible for the 4F was discovered, society as a whole did not reject them and their artful attempt to end the institutions, but on the contrary, embraced and praised them without knowing that they were welcoming a crow that would take out our eyes. Hence the importance of noticing in this new coup, who are those who are carrying it out and what is the purpose of its protagonists, so as not to make the same mistake again. That is why this moment is crucial, because it will define the continuation of the history of the democratic struggle against the regime that has put an end to Venezuela.
In 1998, political disappointment led Venezuelans to vote overwhelmingly for a monstrosity that ruined our way of life. Our collective decision to vote for that social resentment affected for more than 20 years -and counting- the course of the country towards a ravine from which we have not been able to get out. But the signs were there when they appeared in 1992 on that historic day when Venezuela woke up to a coup.
At this moment, the parties of the official opposition are giving us new signs this Christmas, creating a Christmas of coup, by putting an end to the remaining legitimate institutionality, assuming from the National Assembly the functions of a power that does not correspond to them, modifying a Statute that is no longer of transition.
Let us look very carefully and precisely at who they are and why they are doing it. But beyond that, what will come as a result of this decision. We never analyzed this after voting for Chávez in 1998, as a consequence of that militaristic enthusiasm of 1992.
The official opposition pretends to deny, with legal maneuvers, the reality that Nicolás Maduro Moros is a usurper of power, and the need for this country to require a transitional government that will lead us to free, fair and verifiable elections. That cannot be erased just like that from the Venezuelan DNA with a new "Statute". And the fact that Juan Guaidó and his Government in Charge since 2019 have failed to displace the regime that usurps power in Venezuela, does not mean that this is not true. The king has been naked for a long time.
But the reasons adduced by the citizen deputies of the AD, PJ and UNT parties, is that the Government in Charge -which they managed at their whim- failed, and a new strategy is necessary to take us to elections with the one who continues to be a usurper and guilty of crimes against humanity. And that instead of a necessary transition government after the displacement of Maduro and his criminals, we go to elections with him and his corrupt and illegitimate electoral power, keeping the tyrant in power. What a change of strategy...
Unfortunately, the President-in-Charge and his party, Voluntad Popular, never assumed their executive responsibilities, putting the Constitution above any Statute approved by the Assembly. This also makes them responsible before the Venezuelan people for the situation that is being presented today at Christmas 2022, as a legal coup by the Parliament, to the almost null institutionality that exists in the country.
But, as I pointed out before, the important thing is what comes next. Our destiny for the next 20 or 30 years will be determined by what we Venezuelans decide and how we accept these new political decisions. Remember, mistakes in these historical milestones cost us generations. Today, after 1998, there is a whole generation of young people who have never known what it means to buy a house of their own with their work, as well as to raise a family in their own country.
This Christmas 2022 I invite you to reflect on that reality. We are the ones who will endorse with our behavior the mistakes of those who claim to represent us. We made a mistake as a people in 1998! We cannot repeat that mistake! We have paid dearly for the mistake of 1998, with blood in the streets, sweat from the inhuman effort to survive in a country that has become unlivable, and tears for all our family that left and is no longer with us.
We cannot continue to support parties, groups and strategies that do not put in front the immediate exit of the regime that has destroyed Venezuela. This is non-negotiable, not to mention the immorality of even proposing it to Venezuelans. At ANCO we have proposed the summoning of the owner of sovereignty to an indispensable Refounding of the Nation, a proposal in which we accompany the Venezuelan Catholic Church, through our conviction that only the Venezuelan people will be capable of resolving the damage caused by our 1998 mistake.
The way to do this is through an internationally arbitrated election of an Original National Constituent Assembly, where all political and non-political sectors, from all corners of the country, are represented and decide what to do with Maduro and the country. The rest is to continue endorsing routes and paths that accept a regime that all Venezuelans reject as criminal. The coup that the official opposition has just dealt us this Christmas makes it clear to everyone in Venezuela, who shamelessly and at all costs want the continuity of Maduro's regime. Let's reject from now on all its manifestations!
After 27 years in power, dictator Juan Vicente Gómez died peacefully in his bed in Maracay, on December 17, 1935. Many people died in the dungeons of that implacable regime, and no one of that fierce opposition of deep Venezuelan love ever considered living with him. They let themselves be killed as the stories that are already part of our gentilicio tell. Nobody negotiated to cohabit with the tyrant because it was a matter of ethics, of morals, of impeccable men and women that are rarely seen in our lamentable political reality.
Well, we are now in the same situation as the official opposition has clearly revealed. We find ourselves with a regime without political opposition because the one that exists has proven to be bought to coexist electorally with it. What remains is the open and frank resistance of the Venezuelan civil society, which with that moral fiber that has not been extinguished, is very clear about the road ahead.
And the more people we have that clarity, the closer will be the Night of the Weeping Hallacas for Venezuela, so baptized the Christmas of 1935 by the family of Oscar Yanes, extraordinary remembered Venezuelan journalist, when when the tyrant died, he highlighted in his work a beautiful phenomenon: "The prisoners who come from La Rotunda, from the Castle and from the highways and the exiles, who return, some with grown children, who have never seen hallacas, cry when they contemplate the cake, wrapped in leaves, that dripping water on the plate, served by the mother, the grandmother, or the already old girlfriend"(1).
Many of us would rather die waiting for the Night of the Weeping Hallacas, as the grandmothers of my generation lived it, than betray the lives of those who have nobly sacrificed themselves -and still sacrifice themselves persecuted, imprisoned and exiled by the regime- to achieve the freedom of Venezuela. To them, our eternal gratitude and loyalty; and to all of you, my best wishes, because this Christmas Eve, the Child Jesus will give you the strength to wait for the supreme moment when the whole Venezuelan family united will cry around a hallaca, for the future that we justly deserve. Amen and God bless you all...
Caracas, December 24, 2022
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(1) Oscar Yanes, Memorias de Armandito, Editorial Planeta
Venezolana, S.A., Tercera Edición, 1993. Pag. 341.
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