Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and National Assembly Speaker Diosdado Cabello have said that in these 15 years of revolution dialogue has always been effective. And that is it.
The new trial balloon aimed at relaxing the strained political situation in Venezuela is called National Peace Conference. It was born on Wednesday night at Miraflores presidential palace. "This is the way; there is not other way," Maduro asserted. Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles Radonski did not show up. Incidentally, in 2012, his motto was "there is a way."
Nor did the Unified Democratic Panel (MUD) attended. Earlier, in a letter signed by its executive secretary, Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, the opposition coalition had warned: "we will not be amenable to an eventual mock dialogue."
The opposition was absent, yet some free verses were present. Deputies Pedro Pablo Fernández and Ricardo Sánchez took part in the presentation of ideas that lasted more than four hours.
Everybody was on an equal footing in the forum. No agendas or order whatsoever. Either an anchorman, or a model, or the owner of the main business in Venezuela would take the floor.
The façade
"As everything in this government, the important thing is conquering a space (a glaringly necessary conversation which all international bodies eagerly request the Executive Office) and spoiling it to make it unworkable," pointed out Colette Capriles, a professor of Social Sciences and Political Philosophy at Simón Bolívar University (USB).
"Always with such perverse logic of using institutions to destroy them, they (the government) voice their intention to ‘talk.' However, their part in such ‘talks' concern insult, demeaning of the adversary and negation of the serious situation ongoing in the country," the USB scholar noted.
Capriles deemed appropriate MUD decision not to answer to Maduro's call. "It was not room for conversation. If political talks are to be held (which, in my opinion, should never be lost), some appropriate conditions are needed, such as valid interlocutors and mediators renowned by the parties at odds."
Seats were not enough for all those who packed Ayacucho hall at Miraflores presidential palace. However, not everyone of them was there. "The point here is that we don't know for certain which the parties are. There are not two, but several stockholders. Fragmentation of political parties –society, government and opposition- is the main stumbling block. They are not homogeneous blocs."
Source: El Universal
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