No one in their right mind, unless they were spoiled for choice, would have their chest opened for heart surgery by a medical student, much less a hospital orderly. People generally look for the best experience they can find for a surgical procedure. Unfortunately in other things of equal or greater importance the same lesson is not followed. For example, they look for the worst qualified people to run a country.
At some point in time, someone proposed that in Venezuela the same requirements as always could no longer be set as a condition for access to the Presidency of the Republic: Venezuelan by birth, not possessing another nationality, over 30 years of age, of secular status and not being subject to conviction by means of a final sentence (Art. 227 Constitutional). Even for the position of janitor, applicants are required to have at least a high school degree. It is clear that Maduro would not have qualified in any sense if it had been established that the aspiring President had a university degree, because he did not qualify for having a double nationality.
The above has a certain logic. But apparently in the field of Venezuelan politics that surprisingly does not apply. The worst specimens that have failed in any activity can actually lead the most difficult and delicate thing as the future of millions of people if they apply themselves to political charlatanism. Amazing, isn't it? I don't know how it will be in other countries, but in Venezuela it is like that. And as a Venezuelan I disagree that it should continue to be that way. In such a complex world, leaders must have the minimum educational standard to be able to even understand what is happening in front of their responsibilities as leaders of a country. It seems obvious but it is not.
But I go further. In addition to the above, an applicant should have a minimum of experience. That is another requirement that everyone who aspires to a job position goes through, because the one who does not have it, if given the job, must learn how to do the work of the more experienced ones. It is not enough to have a certificate of any kind, you have to show that you know how to do things. And if you don't know how to do them because you are just out of school, then your professional training process has just begun.
So the political, economic and social process of a country is normally carried out with the help of the most experienced of the available population, with the gradual participation of the next generation. But Venezuela is far from being a "normal" country for more than 20 years, if we can say that it ever was with all its ups and downs in a period of relative political and economic stability that lasted about 40 years after 1958. In any case, during that period of relative economic stability there was no phenomenon that appeared years later with castro-chavismo-madurism: massive emigration.
According to figures from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, by June 2020 "the number of people who have had to flee Venezuela reached 5,082,170", a number surpassed in the world only by Syria with 6.6 million. According to the report it is likely "that the total number will be higher" (see in Spanish ACNUR, la Situación actual de los migrantes y refugiados de Venezuela, in https://eacnur.org/blog/la-situacion-actual-de-los-migrantes-y-refugiados-de-venezuela-tc_alt45664n_o_pstn_o_pst/).
This is a clear demonstration that our youth is leaving the country in search of better life opportunities. This phenomenon is not new. It has occurred in the world after great tragedies such as war and the massive application of totalitarian regimes of any polarity. And that is the magnitude of the tragedy we are living in Venezuela. Who is going to stay in the country to do something to get rid of this plague? It will not be a youth that has not lived long enough to know what a democracy with a new President every 5 years means. Who have never experienced the free convertibility of a currency, who do not know what it means to be able to buy a house with a bank loan that they can pay with their salary. Who have never experienced a stable inflation of less than two digits. They do not know what that is. Consequently, they cannot be the ones to succeed in managing this problem, without the proper experience.
I am not saying this to disqualify our young people. They are the only ones who have put their blood in the streets to get out of this regime in the best way they know how, the frontal struggle in the streets. But this vital confrontation requires much more than that. It requires shrewdness, patience and the mileage in life that only experience can give, and that includes not only the academic, but the work resume. At this moment we are at a point where whoever directs the destiny of what is going to happen in the country must be the best surgeon we can find to open Venezuela's chest, as I pointed out at the beginning, accompanied by the best medical team available in all specialties because the patient is dying. This is not the time for young people to improvise. It is the time for experience. Young people will have to occupy a place on the bus but not the driver's seat. The country will be handed over to them once the experience has performed the operation and saved the patient, so that the country can be set on the road to the future in the hands of the new generations.
The latter always reminds me of when presidential pre-candidate Diego Arria told all the young people who accompanied him as pre-candidates, and the entire audience of the Andrés Bello Catholic University in a debate held at its headquarters on November 14, 2011, these words in his first two interventions:
"I am afraid because I know well the consequences that the hatred and violence unleashed by this regime can bring in a society. It is the fear that people have of going out in the street, of going to work, of going to school. That is the fear that has to end in Venezuela. I know how to do it. I propose to preside over a government of two or three years to defeat violence, to rescue peace, security and hope for all".…” It is impossible not to endorse all the proposals of my colleagues, they are absolutely correct. The problem is that Venezuela is facing a different problem. Venezuela is facing a regime that cohabits with an Armed Forces contaminated with the elements of international criminal delinquency, with the mafias embedded within the sectors of the Army, sectors of the National Guard, sectors that by occupying even our borders, have allowed all kinds of criminals to enter Venezuela under the protection of the State, to the point that 70% of the young people who die in Venezuela are under 25 years of age and are due to settling of scores, and this has a direct origin in the correlation, in the cohabitation of the forces of the international mafias that operate in Venezuela under the protection of the Armed Forces, of sectors of the Armed Forces, of the National Guard and the regime. It is impossible that the Head of State does not know the extent, involvement and depth of how Venezuela has been taken over by international mafias that have penetrated, not only the Armed Forces, but also the judicial, legislative, political and fiscal powers. That makes that it is not a problem of a change of head of government, a change of the whole regime...." (see in Spanish Debate 14N-2012 Precandidatos a las primarias, in https://youtu.be/skS4u8DM3RE).
This was said by a seasoned Venezuelan with unparalleled national and international political experience and not comparable by far with any of his competitors in this debate, and who had the Presidency of the UN Security Council to his credit. Arria was 10 years ahead of the discourse that any Venezuelan has now. Neither Venezuelans nor the rest of the pre-candidates had any idea of what Arria was saying or the implications of those words. But now, in the light of everything that has happened up to 2021, they can understand why experience comes first. All those young pre-candidates, who now have that same speech after having understood everything that has happened in Venezuela, should have immediately declined any aspiration and endorsed that incomparable experience for the 2012 presidential election. But they did not do so. Youth and aspirations at that age surpass anything, even the welfare of an entire people.
Now Venezuela is facing the same case in an aggravated and extreme degree. The Conferences for the Constitutional and Democratic Restoration, which bring together the organizations that signed the Citizen Pact of the same name, have people with centuries of accumulated experience in all areas to carry out the monumental task of finding the best way to shake off this regime. Let's not make the same mistake again of those young people who in 2011 did not understand what was happening in Venezuela due to their inexperience and put their aspirations above the welfare of the country. Hopefully we will definitely understand the time of experience and shorten the tragedy of Venezuela.
Caracas, May 1st, 2021
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