By Luis Manuel Aguana
The Third Great Debate of the Program of the
journalist José Domingo Blanco, "Mingo", "Por todos los
medios" by RCR750 on Friday, September 27, 2019 (see it in https://youtu.be/GrBDYQIDVt4), starring Juan Carlos Sosa Azpurua, Erik del Bufalo and Jose Vicente
Haro, is in my opinion an objective and accurate analysis of what is happening
in Venezuela, but left the overall feeling of an overwhelming pessimism.
According to what I heard, Venezuelans have
no way out and we are doomed to this nightmare for many more years. According
to our friends, and in short, we were swindled by an accomplice leadership on
30A and we are in the presence of a monster, that even if we manage to get
Maduro out, the next one in turn will remain in the hands of the puppeteers who
currently manage it, both in the regime and in their official opposition. A
Guaidó incapable of defying power has allowed the continuation of the
Venezuelan tragedy that will continue without a way out for a long time to
come, without "a peaceful solution to the drama we are living through.
No one would want to live in a country with
such a picture. However, three flashes came out of that interesting
conversation: 1) "The country was lost and that's why we have to talk
about rebirth, about rising from the ashes" (Sosa); 2) "the only
thing that can change that is a situation outside the system, that escapes from
its hands and breaks it down" (Del Bufalo); and 3) "We have to
continue challenging the regime and prepare a strategy for the seizure of
power" (Haro). All three agreed that it was necessary for Venezuelans to
understand the nature of the monster we are facing in order to provide the most
appropriate answers. However, the taste of
pessimism prevailed in that discussion.
And you'll ask me, "So you don't agree
to tell people the truth, even if it's bad?". No, quite the opposite. Not
long ago I was telling a great friend and writer that I was always looking for
the answers to this great tragedy. And I didn't see them in what I was writing,
just as I didn't see them in the answers given in that debate. That although
the politicians were at the forefront and are the main actors in this miserable
work, they are not the only ones responsible, but all of us, and it was up to
lucid minds like theirs to point the way. That is why people desperately look
for answers in people who assume they know and think. And in my opinion the
answer of those lucid minds cannot be the pessimism of "there are no exits
here". If you don't see them now, it's because we haven't looked for them
enough.
Recently I saw again the excellent film
starring George Clooney and Britt Robertson, Tomorrowland, which tells a story
that could well be compared to the current Venezuela, respecting the distances
of science fiction. An extraordinary world of the future is doomed to
destruction by its own inhabitants. A machine that allows them to see the
future shows the tragedy that "will happen," but it has not yet
happened. However, the people of the present take for granted that the future
is thrown away, creating a Self-fulfilling Prophecy that certainly provokes
that future destruction, because that is the perception of the future of the
inhabitants of the present. As everyone thinks that this is inevitable, the
future is tenebrous. Only the lucid mind of Robertson's character, Casey,
wonders "why does it have to be like this?" and discovers that if the
machine that "shows the future" is destroyed, people would not be
able to assume that macabre end as true, leaving to each one the future that
could be, a much better one. From there the paradox is resolved and the
prophecy is broken.
And that's what this is about, a
Self-fulfilling Prophecy: "A self-fulfilling
Prophecy is a prediction that, once made, is in itself the cause of it becoming
a reality." (see in Spanish Profecía Autocumplida en https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profec%C3%ADa_autocumplida). And I think
we're getting into a self-fulfilling cage and throwing away the key, as I said
on the last day of 2015. (see
in Spanish 2016: A contrapelo de una profecía autocumplida, en http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/2015/12/2016-contrapelo-de-una-profecia.html).
And
2016 was that bad. We are repeating the mistake again.
In the film Robertson's character, Casey,
says about this, some phrases that I see significant in the serious context of
the self-fulfilling prophecy in Venezuela: "There
are two wolves that are always fighting, one is darkness and despair, the other
is light and hope. What wolf wins? To the one you feed...". We are
permanently feeding the wolf of darkness and despair since these delinquents
took over Venezuela. We have to break this vicious circle! It's time to start
feeding the other right wolf, the one of light and hope. How do
you do that?
Venezuela is debated in two solutions that
are exclusive: 1) Dialogue with elections (regime and official opposition); and
2) Humanitarian intervention with foreign military accompaniment (radical
opposition supported by R2P, TIAR and 187#11). It is insisted that there can
only be one. It cannot be the first because it is unacceptable to go to an
election with the regime in order to repeat the mistakes of the past and for
the opponents to cohabit. And on the other hand it cannot be the second, among
other things because it does not depend on Venezuelans and the current
international diplomatic situation indicates that the International Community
does not approve of an intervention by Venezuela. So why not an intermediate
solution?
All Venezuelans are responsible for the
constitutional re-establishment and the effective validity of the Constitution,
according to the mandate of Article 333. According to that, a solution is
imposed that calls us ALL to decide the future of the country. A solution that
is electoral but does not include the powers kidnapped by Maduro's regime. A
solution where only the people authorize the international use of force in the
event that their mandate is not obeyed, and that the intervention of Venezuela
does not occur as an external decision, but with our approval, and Venezuelans
are protected from crimes against humanity that are being committed against
citizens.
That is, when the country has no exits and is
locked, as the experts indicated in that RCR750 debate, the system is restarted
like a computer, calling for Popular Sovereignty. This could be "the
situation outside the system that escapes from their hands and breaks it
down," proposed by Del Bufalo, and the "rising from the ashes that
Sosa Azpurua indicates. This solution confronts power as Haro claims, because
only the people decide who to grant it to, no one else.
Then we only have the creativity to arm
ourselves as we resolve that call to the Original Power, which until now nobody
wants, because everyone fears. All that remains is to ask ourselves how and in
what way we call for Popular Sovereignty. These are the questions we must ask
ourselves and resolve them. That is the equation. We have the creativity to
solve this problem, but feeding the right wolf of light and hope, not the wrong
one. Then let's do it! That's what we're working
on...
Caracas, 28 September 2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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