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St. Joseph– Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on Monday offered to send “Sandinista fighters” to his ally, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, to prevent Venezuela from organizing a “counter-revolution.”
During a virtual summit with the heads of state of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), Ortega told Maduro not to rule out the possibility of a civil war in Venezuela, as happened in Nicaragua in the 1980s, in the middle of the Cold War.
“I want to remind Nicolás that you must have thought about this, analyzed it and prepared for it (…), because this strategy (to reverse the election results) has already failed for them (the Venezuelan opposition) and there are leaders of the Sandinista National Liberation Front who say that “there is no way out because Nicolás is the legitimate president” and that they can now take up arms, as happened in Central American countries.
Ortega said Colombia could be the birthplace of a Venezuelan “counterrevolution” because of its long border with Venezuela and the presence of a U.S. military base in Colombia.
The Nicaraguan president commented that he did not see Colombian President Gustavo Petro “feeding” this possible “army of mercenaries,” but he did see other former rulers, among whom he mentioned Alvaro Uribe (2002-2010) and Iván Duque (2018-2022).
“There are Yankee military bases there (in Colombia), so it is not excluded, because today imperialism is more hurt than ever by this victory (in Venezuela), to organize an armed counterrevolution, just as they organized it for us,” he said during the first Sandinista government.
Ortega said that in this case, the “battle” in Venezuela will be much bigger than the one taking place in Nicaragua “because the Colombian army, Colombian mercenaries, Colombian killers, Colombian drug traffickers are involved.”
As a result, the Sandinista leader advised Maduro to “be ready to fight and defeat them because I am sure that if this fight takes place, they will defeat them.”
“Rest assured, if that fight takes place, the Sandinista fighters will accompany you in that fight,” he said.
He added: “I am sure that just as thousands of (foreign) fighters joined the fight against (Anastasio) Somoza (Debayle) in Nicaragua, thousands of Latin American and Caribbean fighters will join in the defense of the Bolivarian Revolution.”
Nicaragua is one of the few Latin American countries to recognize Nicolás Maduro as president-elect, even though Venezuelan electoral authorities have yet to submit a record of a process that the opposition denounces as fraudulent. JS
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