By Luis Manuel Aguana
Perhaps those who have lately dedicated all
their energies to demonize through social networks the initiative promoted by a
group of distinguished Venezuelans to send a proposal to the OAS should take a
break, since they have done nothing but request arbitration from that regional
Organization of States to carry out what in Venezuela is not possible to do by
the Venezuelans themselves: a fair, free and transparent electoral process, for
the reasons known to all. If the Venezuelan Public Powers, especially the
Electoral Power, had not been kidnapped (the Judicial Power, the Electoral
Power and the Citizen Power), the Executive Power would have already been
replaced as in any other civilized country. But that has not happened, nor will
it happen as long as those who have kidnapped the Executive Power and the
weapons of the Republic do not allow the Venezuelans to count each other in a
fair, free and transparent manner.
The International Community, made up of States
and their Governments, has insistently reiterated its refusal to intervene
militarily in the Venezuelan situation, especially the brother countries of the
continent gathered at the OAS. So why the insistence of some sectors inside and
outside the country to ask them for something they have already publicly
denied? That is the Einsteinian definition of madness. It is possible that the
United States could make that decision unilaterally, but judging by the most
recent proposal they made to the Venezuelans (see official
proposal at https://www.state.gov/democratic-transition-framework-for-venezuela/) it can hardly be
considered interventionist. On the contrary, it points to a negotiation with
the Maduro regime.
And why do the Americans want a negotiated solution in Venezuela? I
don't think it's because they don't want an immediate exit from this regime. No.
The explanation given by the journalist Sebastiana Barraez, that the United
States prefer a bad government of the regime and its opposition, to a puppet
government of the Iranians with Tarek El Aissami at the head, made a lot of
sense to me. That's if it would make the US National Security's hair stand on
end (see in Spanish Napoleon Bravo's interview with Sebastiana Barraez: armed
intervention is an illusion https://youtu.be/96brXKoKhOo). Could it be that
the thing has to get there for the Americans to get into Venezuela? I don't know, you tell me...
In my opinion, the opinion of the journalist Barraez - generally very
well informed by the military source - in that interview, is one of the most
terrified I have heard of what is happening in Venezuela at this time. But even
so, opinion makers insist that if the troops don't come, we won't get out of
the problem. But the troops aren't coming. So, what? We just sit around and do
nothing while the regime goes ahead and destroys the country? Are the solutions
going to be military intervention or nothing? I don't like this regime any more
than the most recalcitrant opposition radical does, but not only by training
but by conviction I know that problems are not solved by spontaneous generation
alone, much less by banging our heads against a wall. And that is what much of
the Venezuelan opposition is doing while the regime is out there laughing.
I respect if you are in favour of an armed solution, but then manage it.
Don't stay on Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, WhatsApp messages and groups,
emails, communiqués, letters, documents and proclamations. You don't have to
say it publicly, that's counterproductive and even dangerous if you live in
Venezuela. Act! Raise funds to pay for logistics outside the country, mobilize
and help the military that went to Colombia and was shipped by the interim
government and its reals spent on prostitutes in Cúcuta by people who still
work for Guaidó. But better yet, try to convince and negotiate politically with
the governments of the brother countries that are reluctant to a military
intervention to move in favor of liberating Venezuela and convince them that it
is in their interest and in the interest of the region. I am not being sarcastic.
That is what needs to be done if you really think that the military solution is
the most immediate. But move in that direction, because if you stay with the
rhetoric then you're fooling people because NO ONE will move in that direction
if you don't move first.
But those of us who live in Venezuela do not have the time to continue
waiting for that intervention, unless of course Trump, in one of his outbursts,
decides to end this tragedy at his own risk, which he will hardly do before the
American elections. That's betting the country on a lottery. The American
proposal of the famous Framework for Democratic Transition for Venezuela is a
demonstration that this is not his intention. Then they have to be convinced.
If you live abroad and have the means and resources or the way to get them,
please move in that direction. Those of us who are left here, who do not have a
half of a coin because hyperinflation took everything away, what remains is to
think of possible solutions that go hand in hand with a political solution with
the help of the international community. And that is what we have done with
this letter to the OAS requesting from the regional organization a humanitarian
solution of an electoral nature (see Petition in Spanish in, https://www.gopetition.com/petitions/apoyo-la-solicitud-de-la-sociedad-civil-venezolana-al-secretario-general-de-la-oea-para-la-aplicaci%C3%B3n-de-una-soluci%C3%B3n-humanitaria-de-caracter-electoral.html).
But this issue doesn't end here. As we know, the
regime does not stay quiet. It set up an electoral parapet for December with a
new CNE appointed by its TSJ, and accompanied by most of the opposition
parties, trying to give legitimacy to a new National Assembly. We are already
unaware of this new trap. We want an electoral solution but with an impartial
arbitrator supervised by the international community. Already practically
everyone, including the OAS, has rejected this latest move by the regime.
In Resolution of the Permanent Council of the
OAS of June 26, 2020, No. CP/RES. 1156 (2291/20), it was approved to "Reject, likewise, in the strongest
terms, as well as disregard the illegal designation of the members of the
National Electoral Council by the Supreme Court of Justice, as well as the
illegal designation of the directives of the political parties " Primero
Justicia" and "Acción Democrática". And also "To call upon all political actors in
Venezuela to initiate and carry out a determined process of peaceful and
democratic transition in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in accordance
with national laws and its Constitution, as well as the provisions of the
Inter-American Democratic Charter and the OAS Charter". (see in Spanish LAS RECIENTES DECISIONES ILEGITIMAS DEL TRIBUNAL
SUPREMO DE JUSTICIA EN LA REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA (Aprobada por el
Consejo Permanente en la sesión extraordinaria virtual celebrada el 26 de junio
de 2020), in http://scm.oas.org/doc_public/spanish/hist_20/cp42624s03.docx).
It is not left then to
the Permanent Council of the OAS, when asking us for an electoral solution when
the Venezuelans are prevented from carrying it out by the outrage against the
National Assembly and the political parties, as indicated in the same
Resolution, to support our request and to start to exert diplomatic pressure to
force the regime to an arbitration of the OAS for that democratic transition.
The opposite would be a contradiction to the principles that give life to the
Organization and would formalize the beginning of the violent route in
Venezuela. But if, as supporters of a solution of force, you get there first
and get the countries that have said they would not move militarily to move,
then we will both have done our job without getting in the way and you will
have come to free Venezuela first. I wish you luck, freeing Venezuela is what
we all want. I hope in the same way that you wish us luck, because we are both
working for the same thing…
Caracas, July 8, 2020
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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