About the Sovereignty and Self-Determination of Totalitarian Elites and the Helplessness of Citizens

The Chavism dictatorship that has been the Venezuelan regime that has intervened most internationally to destroy the democracies of the hemisphere, squandering in the attempt billions of dollars, today is afraid, is terrified by a possible international intervention to recover the democracy they have destroyed and mocked, with a TSJ (Supreme Court of Justice) illegally chosen, an ANC (National Constituent Assembly) built based on repression and death, more a dirty and fraudulent elections, with all the opposition leaders persecuted, politically vetoed or exiled.

The dictatorship trembles and makes efforts to deactivate that danger, for that it demands respect for Sovereignty, for Independence, for the Self-determination of the peoples.

What should be our Reference of what is INDEPENDENCE, SOVEREIGNTY? Independence in the context used refers to a country. So, it's important to see how that Independence is reflected in the well-being and freedom of the people who live in that country. The Roman Empire, Tsarist Russia, Hitler's Germany, and even for the anti-imperialists the racist United States, were all independent.

Obviously, the relationship between independence and national sovereignty and "welfare and freedom" of citizens is not always positive. Usually those who have independence are the groups of bureaucrats, politicans and military  who control the power, while the ordinary people live on bread and circus that this elites offer: cornered, needy, repressed and without freedom. Are we independent and sovereign Venezuelan citizens? NO, we all feel that immense sense of lack of freedom, of threat, and vile blackmail of the dictatorship.

The same reasoning applies to the Self-determination of peoples. Who determines themselves? Actually, the unique self-determined are the elites, in order to continue mistreating, repressing and robbing an entire country and its population.

Independence, Sovereignty, Anti-imperialism are also used as justification for the eternal permanence in the power of a small elite, and to continue turning the national government into a military government, so it is not strange that military power is involved in all aspects of civil life with the justification of the integral defense of the Fatherland, the false military civic alliance, and the anti-imperialist struggle. The real effect of all this is that the military controls the entire society, since they monopolize firepower and political power. Today we see all those demonstrations of military strength designed more to scare the Venezuelan people than powers like USA or Brazil, which they fear more than anything.

In contradiction, the totalitarian dictatorships that believe in proletarian internationalism and the expansion of communism are terrified of the international intervention of the world's democracies, to free the peoples that they have subjected, oppressed and violet their human rights. They argue the principle of Non-Intervention, The Self-Determination of Peoples, ... but

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”

Desmond Tutu

Hector Schamis in a brilliant article in El País of Spain "The fallacy of Non-Intervention" https://elpais.com/internacional/2019/01/20/america/1547939338_710302.html

He writes some very important reflections on Non-Intervention referring to dictatorial regimes that oppress their peoples and lead them to misery, emigration and violence.

Is that human rights are not of left or right. At totalitarian dictatorship, if there is not intervention, there are not human rights. In situations of abuse, the oppressor always invokes sovereignty and non-intervention. The reason is simple: keep oppression private. The victim has nowhere to appeal, as the rule is unfair and there is no independent justice or political will to prosecute.

The victim is only hopeful of the intervention of the international community to make that public oppression and equate a fundamentally asymmetrical power relationship. Non-intervention, like the neutrality that Tutu mentions, is only the rhetorical tool of complicity.