In the immortal novel by Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna, the inhabitants of that Spanish town in the times of the Catholic Monarchs, gathered to execute the Comendador Mayor, and ended up stoning him to death - stoning him to death - in his own house for the multiple crimes that the people said he had committed, and no matter how many judges and investigators the Spanish Monarchs sent, they could find no other answer to the famous question "Who killed the Comendador?" than "Fuenteovejuna Sir! Something similar is happening in slow motion and from now on with greater speed with the figure of the Government in Charge, better known by Venezuelans as the "interim", and the new figure of the Commander, in the person of the President in Charge Juan Guaidó.
The death of the interim has been slow and painful, as any stoning. The first stone that the interim suffered was the very day of its self- swearing-in on January 23, 2019 when the deputies of the official opposition themselves refused to swear Guaidó in on site, as President in Charge, and he himself ended up doing it alone, and at the behest of a crowd eager for someone to take the step and assume the responsibility of leaving the regime of Nicolás Maduro, of course with the prior support of the government of the United States, who saw to it that the rest of the nations did the same.
The second and more formal stone was laid with the approval of the Transition Agreement signed in February 2019, when the majority opposition factions of the National Assembly decided to assume the Interim Government and make it depend on the decisions of the Parliament, clearly unconstitutional since there are no parliamentary governments in Venezuela, leaving our new Commander without the power to fully exercise his functions as Acting President of the Republic. And the worst part was that the same President-in-Charge also inflicted a strong blow to his own interim (perhaps this was the most painful one because it was self-inflicted) when he himself decided NOT TO ASSUME his own responsibilities as President as he should have done, obeying his political bosses in the National Assembly, by handing over to the head of his party the coordination of all the representatives appointed in his administration through a figure called "Government Center".
As I said on that occasion, if a Transition Law was not acceptable before with Maduro exercising power illegally, imagine what it would be like if that same Statute allows the person who should exercise the office of President by constitutional design, in compliance with Article 233 of the Constitution, to DELEGATE his powers as President to another person, in contravention of the Constitution (see in Spanish, Agencia EFE, Guaidó anuncia la creación de un “centro de Gobierno” con López a cargo, in https://www.efe.com/efe/america/politica/guaido-anuncia-la-creacion-de-un-centro-gobierno-con-leopoldo-lopez-a-cargo/20000035-4051908). That stone was not only thrown not only at the Presidency-in-Charge but also at the very hopes placed in the Commander by the Venezuelan people.
From that moment on, Venezuela-Fuenteovejuna began to accumulate a lot of resentment towards that figure of the caretaker government and its Commander, and its popularity began to gradually decline. Many of us requested from the interim and the National Assembly as a whole during all these years, actions that could be carried out since they had the majority of the votes, the votes of the Venezuelans, in the National Assembly, among them the famous authorization of military missions in Venezuela for the safe entry of humanitarian aid, in accordance with Article 187, numeral 11 of the Constitution. It was not possible, not even with the so-called Fracción 16J, emerged with due to the non-fulfillment of the mandate of the Popular Consultation of July 16, 2017.
We learned of another serious stone when Venezuelans saw with astonishment that some deputies of the National Assembly and officials of the interim government, acting jointly and in coordination, acted in the same manner as the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros, in the corruption scandals unveiled by the Ambassador of the caretaker government in Colombia, Humberto Calderón Berti. Upon reaching this point, at the beginning of December 2019, almost completing the first year of the interim administration, I also threw a stone by requesting that the President-in-Charge should retire in peace (see President Guaidó, go in peace, in https://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/president-guaido-go-in-peace.html).
The interim government disregarded the denunciations and recommendations of oil expert Calderón Berti in the case of Monómeros Colombo-Venezolanos, S.A. and disconnected from him, endorsing together with the G4/FA, the old scheme of party quotas very popular in the pre-Chavista era, in a clear disregard of how things should be handled after the recovery of our country. I said it was a bad start. If that was so without being in Miraflores, imagine when they were in power. Corruption stones are always extremely serious.
From that time to this part, it was always requested to the President in Charge Juan Guaidó to fully assume the very high responsibility that the Venezuelan people had granted him on January 23, above any pressure or partisan control. Those requests made from inside and outside the country were dismissed, and especially one made from abroad by Carlos Sánchez Berzaín, Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute for Democracy, when the expert indicated in great detail how the Interim Government could institutionally evict the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros by force, with all the international legality (see in Spanish, Presidente Guaidó debe pedir y organizar coalición internacional militar para liberar a Venezuela, in https://youtu.be/6RB53HlF4BA).
Finally, the final blow to the interim government was dealt by the same parties of the G4/FA by negotiating and signing this Memorandum of Understanding in Mexico. In it, the official opposition in its condition of "Unitary Platform of Venezuela" agrees to negotiate with the "Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela", accepting with that sole signature the existence of such "government", which is clearly a usurper as all Venezuelans know, who in a binding and constitutional Popular Consultation, held from December 7 to 12, 2020, rejected the regime of Nicolás Maduro Moros and his spurious and illegitimate parliament elected on December 6, 2020.
That fact alone invalidates anything they negotiate in Mexico. That act of recognition ended up killing the Presidency-in-Charge as the closest opposition experience to success that we have had to end the tyranny of Nicolás Maduro Moros, since January 23, 2019. Dr. Andrés Pastrana, former President of Colombia, did not have to remind us in a Twitter message: "If in Mexico Maduro is recognized as the government, and his counterpart as the opposition, the Interim Government of Guaidó disappears with the stroke of a pen" (see Andrés Pastrana in Twitter, in https://twitter.com/AndresPastrana_/status/1427000458334203908).
Each one of those stones were thrown during the progressive stoning of the interim since January 23, 2019 itself, all directed at the head of the one they put there to receive them, Comandador Guaidó, who receives them as a scapegoat for all the shenanigans carried out by the official opposition parties to remain hidden before the Venezuelan public opinion as the main responsible for the decisions taken that have kept Maduro in power, and which culminate with the spectacle of Mexico. Guaidó is nothing more than the one who receives the stones. Once he has fulfilled his role, he will be the one to blame for everything that happens.
But Guaidó is also maintained there as the internationally recognized presidential institution, and paradoxically that would be the only tool he can use to avoid burying himself with those he has accompanied in bad time since his recognition and survive the final stoning, constitutionally exercising the powers granted to him by the Constitution, as he has been requested so many times to move the Republic forward. It is one thing to accompany to the burial of the political corpses that will be produced after the elections that will be negotiated in Mexico, for turning their backs to the Venezuelan people, and quite another to bury themselves with them. It remains to be seen whether the Commander of our history will act in favor of the Venezuelan people or will confirm to be an accomplice of what Venezuela-Fuenteovejuna accuses him of. If he decides to bury himself, in the future the answer to the question, who killed the interim, will be: Venezuela Sir!
Caracas, August 18, 2021
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