Source: lasantamambisa
February 9 2018
Ramos Allup, Julio Borges, Rodríguez Zapatero in Santo Domingo
Once again fulfilling its dismal mission, the United States has just sabotaged a laboriously reached agreement between the government and the Venezuelan opposition in the dialogues of Santo Domingo.
The letter that on February 7 made public the former president of the Spanish government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero reveals his surprise – and, in a more subtle way, his indignation – before the “unexpected” resignation on the part of the representatives of the opposition to sign the agreement when everything was ready for the protocol ceremony in which the good news would be announced publicly.
As revealed in the letter RZ says that after two years of dialogue and discussions an agreement was reached to set in motion “an electoral process with guarantees and consensus on the date of the elections, the position on the sanctions against Venezuela, the conditions of the Truth Commission, cooperation in the face of social and economic challenges, the commitment to normalization institutional and the guarantees for the fulfillment of the agreement, and the commitment for a fully normalized operation and development of democratic politics. ”
A potentially gigantic step
This agreement, had it been signed by the opposition, would put an end to the political crisis that, with its economic and social repercussions, had unleashed one of the most serious crises in Venezuela in its history. It was also a gigantic step towards the normalization of a regional situation increasingly stressed by the resonances of the Venezuelan conflict.
The pretext surprisingly used by the ashamed opposition was the renewed demand that the presidential elections be monitored by the Lima Group, a collection of countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Santa Lucia) whose governments compete to see who shows the greatest servility when it comes to obeying the orders issued by the White House to attack Venezuela.
The Lima Group is not an institution such as UNASUR, the OAS or others. The document prepared in the Dominican Republic put in the hands of the General Secretariat of the UN to organize the oversight of the presidential election, an infinitely more serious and prestigious institution than the Lima Group – a group where the narco-presidents abound; where the coup-makers like the leaders from Brazil and Honduras are blessed by the United States; where governments exist such as the one in Mexico that made electoral fraud an art of incomparable efficiency, or the one in Chile, whose greatest democratic achievement is to have disappointed its people so much that less than half of the electorate went to vote in the last presidential election.
Nevertheless, the demand that this unpresentable group of governments be in charge of guaranteeing the “transparency and honesty” of the presidential elections in Venezuela was the pretext used to boycott an agreement that had cost so much work to seal. How tcan this sudden and unexpected change in the opinion of the Venezuelan opposition be explained?
The model is Libya or Iraq
To answer this question you have to travel to Washington. As was foreseeable for the White House, the only acceptable solution is the dismissal of Nicolás Maduro and a “regime change”, even if this option entails the danger of a civil war and huge human and economic costs. In other words, the model is Libya, or Iraq, and in no way can there be an agreement re transition between the government and the opposition, or even less, can there be an acceptance of the survival of the Bolivarian government in exchange for some gestures of moderation on the part of Caracas.
From the geopolitical perspective that informs all the actions of the White House, no moral scruples can interfere in the project of putting Venezuela under the yoke of the United States, that sick obsession of the empire to turn it into a North American protectorate a country that has the largest oil reserves in the world. planet and a territory endowed with immense natural resources.
For the Washington hawks any option other than that is pure sentimentality, and if the politicians of the Venezuelan opposition believed that these negotiations would be if not endorsed at least tolerated by the White House they fell into a childish illusion: believing that the United States cares about democracy, or what they call “humanitarian crisis”, or the rule of law in Venezuela. To the empire these questions are completely irrelevant when one speaks of the immense majority of the “countries of shit” that constitute the periphery of the world capitalist system. So it was no coincidence that the order to refrain from signing agreements coincide with the visit to Rex Tillerson to Colombia, and was President Juan M. Santos who had the dishonorable task of transmitting the ukaseimperial to the representatives of the opposition gathered in Santo Domingo.
A military solution – Tillerson’s tour
How will this story continue? Washington is tightening the rope to make a “military solution” inevitable in Venezuela. That is why Tillerson toured 5 Latin American and Caribbean countries, in an effort to coordinate on a continental level the actions of what could well be the beginning of a final assault against the homeland of Bolívar and Chávez.
The Southern Command is enlisting personnel of the United States Air Force in Panama without another credible purpose than to attack Venezuela. Meanwhile, the diplomatic and media offensive is spreading all over the world. The European Parliament has given new samples of its putrefaction process and redoubles the sanctions against Venezuela, while the Latin American and Caribbean servants of Washington are embittered with aggression. On February 8, the Chilean government announced the indefinite suspension of its participation in the Venezuelan dialogue because, according to La Moneda, “minimum conditions have not been agreed for a democratic presidential election and institutional normalization.”
It seems that, as José Martí once said, in Venezuela the “hour of the ovens is arriving and it is not necessary to see more than light.”
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