Political incidence is an urgent practice in Venezuela

The nations of the world are governed by presidents, governors, mayors, councilors, deputies and officials who have been elected by the popular masses for public office in order to manage the administration of a country.

Governments have a responsibility to respond to good governance and guarantee citizens an equitable distribution of resources to raise their quality of life; a right contemplated in the Inter-American Charter of Human Rights

However, we see countries like Venezuela, where the authorities have been incompetent and ineffective to operate a social, economic, educational policy that responds to the guarantee of living in optimal conditions.

When a citizen makes the decision to demand that the government fulfill its responsibilities (because it was chosen for that), that citizen is activating the movement of political incidence.

Political advocacy is planned action, organized, strategic, thought, intended to put pressure on the rulers and take them to fulfill the functions that stipulate their position.

To influence is to denounce a problem that affects us, but at the same time be empowered by the legal and social mechanisms to demand the rights contemplated in the constitution.

In the case of Venezuela, so far in 2018 there have been hundreds of citizen protests for lack of public services, but they have remained in that: in only street demonstrations.

It is urgent that people go beyond the protest and plan strategies to approach authorities in order to influence the compliance and duty of public policies and programs.

What is the problem? I believe that many citizens do not know or believe in the ability we have to demand our rights and enforce the law. I do not remember having learned this in school or at the high school; it is necessary to educate in citizenship in order to get to practice public advocacy.

It is no secret to anybody that corruption corrodes the Venezuelan rulers; there is no transparency, efficiency or equity. They do not guarantee human rights and the Constitution is violated again and again.

What is the problem? This government was in charge of instilling terror in Venezuelans, many live in precarious conditions; without guarantee of health, security, education, integrity, but do not dare to demand their rights for the pattern of repression that the authorities fixed in the Venezuelan people.

What should we do? Political advocacy is not shouting and bombarding the ranks of the government, the incidence is a meticulous action, planned and carried out by groups of empowered and organized citizens who work to influence others, free them from the schemes programmed by governments and motivating them to recognize worthy and deserving of all the riches of a nation.

We advocate when we educate in freedom, when we recognize the person as a human being worthy, capable and free; worthy of having quality of life; able to be the protagonist of its development and free to act and decide. public graphics.

The opposite to incide, is to manipulate. We advocate for the good of humanity; governments manipulate with their speeches and strategies to anchor themselves in power and steal the resources that correspond to all; I speak in the case of Venezuela, it is not a secret, I do not live in another country.

In short, political advocacy is a necessary practice in the citizenry, we must sow, water and strengthen it to reap its fruits: Democracy, autonomy and freedom.

It is necessary to stop being subject to those whose needs must be satisfied and to become subjects of rights with legal and social power to demand from the State the fulfillment of its obligations.