By Luis Manuel Aguana
If there is any institution in the
collective imagination of the Venezuelan, it is the Cabildo. Since Venezuelans
begin to have a historical awareness of the country as just a few children in
school, they are told as a mantra the story of Vicente Emparan, Captain General
of Venezuela and the so-called "¡A Cabildo!” of citizens to resolve the
government, with the proclamation of Venezuela's Independence on April 19,
1810.
It is not surprising then that the
so-called “A Cabildo!”, or in more recent terminology, Assemblies of Citizens,
held by the National Assembly to implement the unconstitutional Agreement of
January 15, has been so successful. This success has been used by politicians
all over the country to try to take people's baths to shake off the collective
rejection that citizens feel for them. In some cases they have not been able to
do so.
What is regrettable about this
situation is that the first act of a staging that will culminate on January 23
will not end that day in what Venezuelans aspire to, which is nothing more than
an immediate change in the country's grave situation, but will be the beginning
of a dizziness of the politicians who made this parliamentary agreement to
continue in an indefinite situation of coexistence until reaching a negotiation
of fraudulent elections with the delinquent regime of Nicolas Maduro.
Once again, the hope of the
Venezuelan people to get out of this regime is being used as a mechanism to
continue giving time to the official opposition political class and the regime
to square off. Meanwhile, Venezuelans die like hunger flies or in hospitals,
without doctors or medicines, in the midst of the most frightening
hyperinflation ever seen on the planet.
Do you think that if Henry Ramos
Allup, Julio Borges or Omar Barboza himself had occupied the Presidency of the
National Assembly on January 10, they would not have sworn him in as President
in Charge of the Republic? Of course they would have! And why not Juan Guaidó?
Because before giving the Presidency to a young man who is in fourth or fifth
place in the order of political hierarchy within his own party, they preferred
to arm themselves with an unconstitutional legal juggernaut in order to
distribute the competencies of the President of the Republic, putting their own
aspirations ahead of the suffering of the Venezuelan people.
And Juan Guaidó is very aware of
that. That's why he will never take charge of the Presidency of the Republic,
with the excuse that "the conditions are not met" when all the
countries of the world are only waiting for him to decide to do so in order to
support him without any restriction, without counting on the extraordinary
support that all the Venezuelan people have expressed to him. He proved it when
the SEBIN policemen let him go free. And what is regrettable is that he already
manifested it openly (Guaidó indicated that he will not "succumb to
pressure" to assume the Presidency, in http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/politica/guaido-indico-que-sucumbira-ante-presiones-para-asumir-presidencia_267085). Simply the politicians who held their Presidency of
the National Assembly would immediately abandon him if he assumes the
commitment in favor of the Venezuelans. But that commitment is not optional,
but it is not for me to judge Juan Guaidó's decision. History will take care of
that.
Where does this situation leave us?
We are headed for a repetition of the events of 2014 or any of those that
followed later where the regime gained time, in favor of the detriment of all
of us and the death of many Venezuelans in the streets. Guaidó is wanted there
to serve as a disposable backdrop until supposed elections take place with the
regime - including Tiby's CNE - where the real bosses who are not giving him
the opportunity to make a real transition that will take us away from the
regime now, thus assuring his political survival for the future, so here the
regime destroys us all in the process. If possible that cannot be allowed.
How can that be prevented? Only
Popular Sovereignty can do that, no one else. Politicians know that no more
elections can be held in Venezuela if they do not comply with the decision of
the legitimate Supreme Court of Justice of June 13, 2018 ordering them to
change from an automated system to a manual election system, along with a
thorough review and cleaning of the Electoral Registry. But no, they ignore it
in favor of negotiating with the delinquent regime of Nicolás Maduro.
Aware of this, the National
Constituent Alliance-ANCO, before the unconstitutional Agreement that
politically obliges Guaidó not to assume as President in charge of the
Republic, proposes that Juan Guaidó obeys the Venezuelan claim to be sworn in,
and once done that "convoke once
sworn, to a GREAT CABILDO AT WORLD LEVEL TO ALL VENEZOLANS, where all the
diaspora that has been forced to leave our country participates, and that
making use of Articles 5, 70, 333, and 350 Constitutional, are pronounced
through a Popular Consultation at the national and international level as a
means of participation and protagonism of the people, with the solidarity and
effective support of the International Community, to request their permanence
in Power beyond the 30 days established in Article 233 of the Constitution, and
until the necessary conditions for an Authentic and transparent Election of all
Public Powers in Venezuela can be met" (see in Spanish Proposal of
ANCO in front of the Usurpation Agreement of the National Assembly. Restore
Popular Sovereignty! The World Cabildo". in https://ancoficial.blogspot.com/2019/01/comunicado-anco-cabildo-mundial-18-01.html).
If this is not done, the Supreme
Court of Justice should definitively legitimize the decision to fill the Power
Vacuum in light of the manifest refusal of Juan Guaidó and the National
Assembly to assume that commitment with Venezuelans, and whoever turns out to
be the President in Charge should convoke that Popular Consultation that will
allow him to "remain in Power beyond
the 30 days established in Article 233 of the Constitution, and until the
necessary conditions for an Authentic and transparent Election of all Public
Powers in Venezuela can be met". In this way, the President in Charge
would have the support of the popular will to exercise a Transitional
Government with all the freedom and stability that the Venezuelan case needs.
Only
People's Sovereignty would cut off the continuationist aspirations of both the
regime and its official opposition, generating the conditions for a thorough
cleaning of all the accumulated political filth on both sides. That can only be
done by the people of Venezuela. To Cabildo! Let's go to a World Chapter and
start another independence feat as only Venezuelans know how to do?
Caracas,
January 19, 2019
Email: luismanuel.aguana@gmail.com
Twitter:@laguana
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