Miguel Angel Sandoval
A few years ago, the US and its allies created Juan Guaidó. To complete the matter, they got about 50 countries to “recognize” the constitutional president. Without votes, or minutes and without approval from the institutions of the country. For a few years, as a VIP traveler, Guardó was responsible for discrediting the Venezuelan regime and spending the millions that the US and other countries had illegally taken from the Bolivarian government.
The phantasmagoric stories that Guaidó constructed as a democratic narrative did not stand the test of time. Today he is an unknown person and is remembered only as a spy and servant of the US government. They are facts again. Hard and unstable.
In this process, the remote countries did a lot to recognize someone who did not have the democratic credentials for anything and even less to pretend that he won the elections in Venezuela. He does not hesitate to point out that, in the process, the EU, the OAS, even the UN, agreed to support the version created by Washington.
Today we have again, the same forces, only slightly reduced, that entered the statement of the Venezuelan opposition which, for the umpteenth time, rejects the results of the election because it cannot for them, through votes, to win the presidency of the republic. All of these areas of opportunity have always had clear and immediate support from the northern government and its disinformation agencies, be it the corporate media or clearly the intelligence agencies and covert operations abroad.
The economic measures that overlapped ranged from economic warfare to oil price manipulation. All this includes encouraging migration from a significant section of Venezuelans. In this, the statement of the crisis, inserted in all the information or information grids, took over the pages and the radio and TV waves. And now with the support and promotion of the networks through the activities of the direct owners, who, using algorithms and all the tricks of corporate networks, support the opposition, whether Guaidó or It’s Corina.
These days, what concrete data is and is about is that the opposition, before going to the polls, had found a way to ignore the results and shout after a few hours, or rather, before, that there was fraud, that the elections were a farce and that they even created summaries and numbers that were alien to the reality of the democratic vote. Without dwelling on the truth, a computerized voting system, with levels of security that do not exist in any country on the continent. Less in the US as Florida pantomime remembers.
The offensive in the media that has been published before is so strong that voices from the progressive sectors are questioning the outcome, because the situation has been so great that this conversation has slipped through all the cracks. And one of the issues that is the Gordian knot of the whole media crisis is, again, the idea of showing the minutes. And that in itself is complicated. Anyway, Maduro has already said that he agrees with the local electoral court showing the minutes. In other words, with that act, the marimba is covered.
On the one hand, there is the fact that the frauds are in the USA (Florida) or in Mexico (Fecal) or in Brazil, with Bolsonaro. In them the international “community” was silent. Now part of the international “community” wants, wants, wants the Venezuelan government to present the polls. Because of what? If you think about it, the international community has to count on Russia or China, Kuwait or the Arab Emirates, with many more countries. In other words, the international community is not the US and its allies. Here we have to reflect and introduce the concepts of geopolitics. This is if we want to do a real analysis.
But there is an issue worthy of the Venezuelan election result. In fact, it has become, through the effects of geopolitics, an internal issue for all countries in the region. Not because there is a corrupt or dictatorial system, but because it presents a different political model from the rest of the countries, that is: a model of socialism in the Venezuelan style.
One may or may not agree with this model, but that does not mean that one can question the levels of security offered by an electoral system, which, from a technological point of view , armed. Another thing is the strongest dialogue and we already know how it is built. Now I remember a book by Chomsky with a nice title: “How they sold us the motorcycle.”
Personally, I don’t think Boric has anything in common with Milei. And Arévalo has nothing in common with Boluarte. And it is because of this kind of nuances that we cannot speak of a consensus in the “critical” ideas of the Venezuelan process. This is what explains the failure of the OAS, that the countries of the region could do nothing but ask the Venezuelan electoral body to do the work by showing the complete minutes. But it will be done with the Venezuelan times and with the country’s institutions. That’s all.
In the same way, I do not see it as something legitimate that the US will now be the protector of Venezuelan democracy. Maybe if it was clearer and it was said that they are the protection of Venezuelan oil against the threat that it serves China or Russia, and not companies like Texaco, Gulf, Exxon or whatever what are they called. Here there is a clear question of national sovereignty. Venezuela owns the natural resources, not the oil companies. If this is understood, perhaps we could agree with some critics of the Venezuelan model.
There is a certain truth. With Maduro’s victory and all that it means, the countries of the continent feel that their chairs are moving. The comfort zone associated with the US is moving in an unexpected direction: the BRICS. Now Venezuela and its Bolivarian system must be a full part of this new economic and political coalition that counts among its best allies Brazil, China, Russia, India and a – now Venezuela, as well as a dozen countries, including Iran.
It is easy to conclude that the US does not like this at all and that is why there is a period of discontent, because it is clear that other actors now have the unchallenged influence the continent. That is why the Venezuela issue, and why it became an internal issue. In some countries with the well-known panic “here come the Russians and the Chinese”, but in others, with the certainty that new relationships can begin, with respect, exchange, with very good neighbors.
