Once the Venezuelan democratic political forces, both those expressed in the Democratic Unitary Platform, and those of millions of citizens who support it inside and outside the country; once that Democratic Unitary Platform organized the admirable electoral process that was the primary elections that were held in October 2023; Once from that process emerged, not only a presidential candidate, but a political leader, a leader for the entire Venezuelan society, without exclusions of any order; And once the electoral campaign is producing an unexpected effect throughout the territory, that of the broad mobilization of the communities to listen to the message of
María Corina Machado
, it is time to look at the horizon and ask ourselves about the continuation of the struggle.
But before continuing with these reasonings, I want to stop at a
triple political phenomenon that has been occurring
, which has been detected by María Corina Machado's campaign teams, by journalists and by social leaders from the different regions visited by the candidate. The first thing I want to draw attention to is the
mobilization of people - even entire families - who had never before attended a march
or rally, for different reasons: fear of reprisals, commitments to the PSUV or another government entity. , as a result of dependence on CLAP or some other reason. I have noted this phenomenon first because none expresses more clearly the process of political rupture that is underway: that of communities in the Venezuelan regions that had remained silent in the face of the opposition proposals, and now have taken to the streets to welcome them. welcome to the change that María Corina Machado embodies.
The second note is of a qualitative order and is core
: the tone of the citizens is fed up
. Of solid, unequivocal, irreversible and increasingly evident tiredness. I'm talking about mothers and fathers, I'm talking about teenagers and young people, victims and witnesses of the collapse who, having surpassed all expectations of finding some solution to their lives with Maduro, have concluded: change must be made, but it has to happen immediately. There is nothing to wait for.
The third element is also deeply revealing: it is about what is happening in the PSUV, in State agencies,
among public employees: the fatigue has overflowed and reached them.
The most extreme of political landslides is occurring, which occurs silently: the landslide of those who reached a conclusion, who are only waiting for the moment to express their opinion. Does the reader remember the referendum on Essequibo? Do you remember the call to Bolivarian Fury? And the successive pleas from the regime to occupy the streets? The landslide is precisely that: the failure, one after another, of all efforts to achieve some form of mobilization. The failure is that no one listens. The accelerated loss of its popular bases.
I return then to the crux of this article: the most recent of the limits violated by the government is the shameless and grotesque way in which the registration of
Corina Yoris
as a presidential candidate was prevented. It is a desperate action. Stripped of all dissimulation.
The regime has understood that it has lost all social support.
And, to make matters worse, he knows that this state of affairs tends to get worse every day. It's on the limit.
So what is left for the regime? Prevent, at whatever cost, the carrying out of the electoral process that Venezuelan society expects, and that the international community also expects (this is not a rhetorical statement, it is real and is proven by the statements of the governments of Brazil and Colombia, which They fear a new migratory cycle if credible elections do not occur).
When I say they don't want elections, I mean:
they don't want legitimate elections or for them to change anything.
What the National Electoral Council has demonstrated in the last few hours is that it has been preparing to commit
the most gigantic fraud ever reported
. He is ready and unscrupulous.
This being the case, can we believe that we must work to defeat him in the presidential elections, when there is no longer a way to hide the fraud they propose?
When I say that we must defeat it now, I mean that, given the evidence that they will not allow the democratic opposition to participate, and that they will organize an electoral imitation so that nothing changes,
the time has come for massive and simultaneous mobilization in all areas. Where possible
, in the streets, in the diplomatic, legal and communication spheres, we must coordinate the pressure over time, establish clear objectives, defeat them now, so that the elections are those that the country demands, or even for that the regime itself take the initiative for an agreement to immediately begin some form of transition that prevents human rights violations, corruption and the destruction of living conditions from continuing. I insist: it is what the majority wants. The absolute majority of Venezuelans.