I have always thought that important things can be said in a few words, especially when you can't waste time because the problems are more than overwhelming and above all very complex. You have to read and listen a lot and exchange ideas to find solutions. We must learn from the experiences of those who have them because if there is something that has been demonstrated is that no one is the holder of the truth, and recognize that we do not have all the pieces of the puzzle, and to complete them we need the help of others. In opposition Venezuela no one has all the pieces of the puzzle entitled "getting out of the regime".
Likewise, I have always considered that in order to start a path to try to solve any problem, its initial formulation must be as accurate as possible, because if the right questions are not asked, the answers will definitely be irremediably wrong. And this must be done every time a path is started.
I begin this note with those reflections awakened by the intervention of former President Jamil Mahuad in a recent seminar to which I was invited, entitled "Global Governance and Growth in Freedom", an extraordinary initiative of Miami Dade College, the Atlantic Institute of Government, the Benjamin Franklin School of Government, the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA), the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, with the stellar participation of former Prime Minister of Spain, José María Aznar, former President of Ecuador, Jamil Mahuad and former President of Uruguay, Luis Alberto Lacalle.
Although all the topics discussed during the three days of the seminar were of fundamental importance, I will focus on the one that most represents a stake in the heart of the common Venezuelan, which is none other than the violation of his human rights from the perspective of a former president of government, and whose perspective has precisely given rise to a trial in the International Criminal Court to the usurper Nicolás Maduro and his criminal court.
In my opinion, the reflection in a few words of former President Jamil Mahuad rightly hits the core of the Venezuelan Human Rights problem: "...We register a trajectory of constant decline, because we have gone from a time when governments were determined to fight drug trafficking and terrorism, to another in which some governments decided to ignore these problems. They turned a blind eye and looked the other way, focusing their attention on human rights. Worse still, then appeared governments that became partners and sponsors of organized crime, until reaching the various narco-States of today in which the governments of countries have become drug traffickers, in which drug traffickers have become governments of certain countries, using the codes, structures and modus operandi of the mafias to exercise the political power of government. And we already know the value that this type of behavior assigns to values and human rights".
And you will say to me "But we already knew that, they are criminals". However, something that we have already known for a long time because we are direct victims of this degenerative process, is already a topic that has been seriously addressed in the global political world: "Less than 20% of the countries in the world today are governed by full democracies. How to play by the rules of a fair democratic game in countries controlled by authoritarian and totalitarian governments that do not believe in those rules and do not respect Human Rights? And they laugh in the face of their opponents who do, whom they imprison, torture and even kill". Because this would give an answer to those who still insist on going to electoral processes with the criminals in charge of the country; and because anyone who follows this macabre game must necessarily be an accomplice of this.
In his presentation, former President Mahuad referred to "The 25th Hour", a 1949 novel by Romanian author Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, which was made into a movie in the 1960s. Many have given different interpretations to "the 25th hour", but we will use the author's own: "The 25th hour is the hour that follows the final moment, when hope is no longer possible, it is "the moment in which all attempts at salvation become useless", in the words of Traian, one of the characters in the work. In the end, totalitarian ideologies -whether they are of any color, right-wing or left-wing- end up being oppressive and dehumanizing man to unsuspected extremes." (see in Spanish La hora 25, in https://unpocodehistoria.es.tl/La-hora-25.htm). Nothing could be more similar to Venezuela. Are we in the 25th hour, when no more hope is possible and every attempt at salvation is useless? Or as former President Mahuad asks: "Should we act urgently because we are in the 24th hour and it is already too late, and the only thing left is to contemplate the irreversible destruction that is coming because we are already entering the 25th hour? My answer can be no other: it depends on us, Venezuelans.
These are tough questions but they are the right questions. I cannot say if Venezuela has reached the bottom because any dramatic situation can always be worse, but only we can say if we have reached the 25th hour. If we insist on deceiving ourselves that we have not reached the 24th hour because we are being subjected to an electoral soporific, we will be the ones responsible for reaching the 25th hour when nothing can be done.
If we Venezuelans recognize that we are at the 25th hour because everything has been lost, with a "normal electoral" situation as the opposition's mirror sellers paid by the regime try to make us see it, this will mean that all the deaths and the infinite hardships of our population for more than 20 years will have been worthless. It is not as simple as letting them pass as criminals and negotiating with them for elections. NO. It is that delinquency became the government in Venezuela and we never thought that would happen. Let us realize that this is the real problem and act accordingly. I end by quoting former President Mahuad's closing words: "...people who exercise democratic leadership are not only right. They must also get the majorities to agree with them and to agree with them in time". And I would add: when we recover freedom, the reason of those majorities will be able to express itself freely. In the meantime, the struggle will continue so that they can express it and that we do not reach that 25th hour...
Caracas, September 21, 2021
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