By Luis Manuel Aguana
One thing is elections with the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros in power
and another very different thing is with a Transitional Government ruling in
Miraflores to organize free elections after an absolutely necessary
re-engineering of the Electoral Power. If this is understood down to the last
of the Venezuelans, then why don't those who represent us as an official
opposition do it? I make this reflection on the occasion of the words of the
former President of the Spanish Government, Felipe González, during the XII
Atlantic Forum "Iberoamérica de cara al futuro", which remind the
official opposition political leadership of something that we have repeated in
Venezuela from civil society to tiredness: with criminals you don't negotiate.
It is very embarrassing to give this leadership, that Felipe Gonzalez be
an eloquent voice of Ibero-American political experience, say things like
these: "If anything is clear, it is
that there will be no democratic elections there if the transition is led by
Maduro" (see in Spanish, “La Asamblea Nacional “Prostituyente” de
Maduro no debería tener ningún tipo de legitimidad”, en https://www.libertaddigital.com/internacional/latinoamerica/2019-06-24/felipe-gonzalez-mario-vargas-llosa-xii-foro-atlantico-iberoamerica-de-cara-al-futuro-maduro-venezuela-1276640822/). But, please!
Should Felipe Gonzalez have said it so that these people understand that NO
MORE ELECTION CAN BE MADE IN VENEZUELA WITH THE REGIME COMMANDING IN
MIRAFLORES? That they have repeated countless times that they would not lose
any election? Well, they were told by Felipe Gonzalez, to the painful grief of
Venezuelans.
But to everyone's astonishment, if the Liberator himself could return
from his sepulchre to which he has not yet been able to descend quietly because
the Union has not yet been consolidated, they will continue along the immutable
route of agreeing elections with the regime. What González and the world fail
to understand is that such barbarity is only possible if you consider those who
negotiate not as a real opposition to the regime, but as an extension of it. This puts the problem in a completely
different dimension.
In a previous note we indicated that in view of the discoveries of 23F
and 30A, the official opposition was never willing to take Maduro out but to
negotiate with his regime, so it was necessary to conclude that the mantra they
sold us from the beginning never had any validity, and what it deprived us of was
always an agreement negotiated by elections with the regime, which is what the
G4 parties historically wanted since the National Assembly was installed on
January 5, 2016 (see The death of a mantra, in http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/the-death-of-mantra.html).
If we start from that fact that I consider fundamental for this
analysis, we could hardly expect them to rectify that route no matter how many
people of the stature of Felipe Gonzalez amend the plan. That is why we say
that the problem is much more serious than Venezuelans think, that they are
"errors" that must be corrected because this problem is more
structural than circumstantial.
To understand the reasons why the official opposition insists on this
suicidal path for Venezuela as a country, at this moment I consider it
irrelevant. It could be due to a mixture of ideological affinities - they are
all more or less radical socialists -, joint corruption, taking care of the booty
of what both have stolen in 20 years of dismantling the country, or by the
imposition of the Castro's Cubazuela with the help of their international
allies, or a mixture of all that toxic minestrone. The result is the same: the
regime remains, mutated into the leather by the electoral route using the
roulette loaded from the CNE. They can change Maduro and put another, or even a
"convenient" one as their candidates from both the official
opposition and the regime that keeps the "status quo" alive. All this
can be part of a plan that they are preparing for us and that they are not yet
making known.
The problem, my dear friends, is that Venezuela was left without
mourners. That we were betrayed by those who said they would defend us and that
in this limbo moment in which nothing is happening, other than the worsening of
the living conditions of Venezuelans, what is being prepared in Norway and
Sweden is the concoction that they will try to sell us, to convince us that
"now is the time", that the regime will leave and there will be a
"cessation of usurpation" because they made a cosmetic change of
Rectors in the CNE and the regime will "release" some political
prisoners, even knowing that in Venezuela there is the famous revolving door in
the dungeons of the regime, where some come out and others come in. They trust
that we Venezuelans are fed up with the situation and that we will buy any
"solution" because there is nothing else to do. And that is not true.
And why isn't that true? Because that solution is not sustainable in
time because of the simple fact that freedom is not found in any equation where
a regime like that of Nicolás Maduro Moros and his associates is included. That
the Rule of Law and the re-establishment of the constitutional validity contemplated
in Article 333 are nowhere to be seen, as well as the dismantling of Maduro's
unconstitutional Constituent Assembly. What are they offering us then? Another
deception disguised as elections. And it is not only a deception of the
Venezuelans, it is of the entire International Community.
Who then are the mourners of the country? The only thing left was the
Civil Society that in one way or another has demonstrated in fact and with
blood, its true desire to end this nightmare, not from now on but from the time
of the massacre of Baralt Avenue in 2002. That is, all of us who still live in
this country - and who will not leave - and those who, for one reason or
another, have abandoned it, and are still willing to recover it. That is where
the new political leadership should come from, replacing those who were
officially given the responsibility of representing us and who are now
negotiating with Nicolás Maduro Moros. I wonder if the deputies who set up the
Norwegian racket will believe that their constituents gave them the mandate on
6D-2015 for that.
In this sense, civil society in its various manifestations will have to
prepare to assume responsibilities that were never thought of on 6D-2015 and
participate in a complete renewal of the country's political leadership,
whether the solution to this nightmare is just around the corner or not. It is
no longer a question of thinking that someone else will solve it for you.
Proposals and alternatives must and must come from the citizens.
And it's not like we're talking about "anti-politics" here.
Quite the opposite. Politicians and serious politics are so needed that we are
suffering this tragedy because of its lack at this critical moment in the life
of the country. Ethical, moral and political decomposition has long since
reached that class and it is now urgent and indispensable for a new leadership
to emerge from the very bowels of Venezuela in all orders, regardless of age or
gender. Only in this way will we stop passing the embarrassment of hearing from
real politicians abroad what any politician who is a beginner in Venezuela
should know.
Caracas, June 25,
2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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