Venezuela, Moving Forward! US Will Take Action
Speaking to the people of Matera, as Luigi Vannucchi wonderfully plays him in Roberto Rossellini's movie “Year One,” Alcide de Gasperi says, “It is moral conscience that ultimately decides even social relations.”
The work of a young scholar, Emilio Sposito Contreras, recently highlighted the importance of moral power in the mindsets of Bolivar and behind the current Venezuelan constitutional system. The Venezuelan constitution has translated the importance of overcoming the destructive separation between morality and politics into a specific institutional design. According to constitutionalist Carlo Amirante, from a democratic point of view, the most significant developments such a highly advanced constitution represents indeed relate to moral power, which coincides with the city’s power, electoral power and, above all, the right to remove from office those elected if they do not respect the rules and institutional ethic of their mandate. Of course, painful diatribes on public financing and primary elections are the main expression of a mock democracy.
Furthermore, on an ideal plane, morality and democracy go hand in hand, allowing for popular control of business management and public money from the bottom, which prevents corruption, one of the great plagues of our time that affects a large number of governments and is obviously facilitated by the overwhelming power of private finance.
Characterized by the affirmation of social rights that are translated into practice through the redistribution of income and activities of the Bolivarian missions, the solid Venezuelan constitutional structure, in a way, engages a permanent protagonism of the people, which gives rise to a rich political dimension, both pluralistic and participatory, despite attempts at coups and sabotage by the opposition. No matter how challenging, beyond partisan disputes, a new, bottom-up institutionalization of the people is making way, exemplified by the municipal councils. We are only at the beginning of a journey toward overthrowing the bourgeois democracy and onset of an effective democracy.
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