During the commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Nicaraguan Army Air Force, dictator Daniel Ortega called Venezuelans who have taken to the streets of Venezuela to protest against Nicolás Maduro’s self-imposed victory in the presidential elections on July 28 “coup plotters,” “terrorists,” and “drug addicts.”
He noted that after the results released by the National Electoral Council of Venezuela were known, in which they declared the candidate for reelection Nicolás Maduro the winner of the presidential elections with 51%, the opposition “began to develop the plan with greater fury, the plan that the coup plotters, the terrorists, had been executing long before the elections.”
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In line with the discourse he has repeated for the past six years, Ortega stressed that the 2018 protests in Nicaragua were “an attempted coup d’état,” assuring that this is being replicated after the Venezuelan presidential elections.
“On the 29th (of July) we saw the other candidate (Edmundo González), who was really the puppet of the extreme right, declaring himself president, and they had already bought, paid the humble people of the neighborhoods, the same issue as on the 18th (2018), people, boys, humble, drug addicts, so that they would go out to cause damage, to destroy,” Ortega accused.
He also attacked Latin American governments, saying that they are also part of the alleged coup d’état. “The rulers are acting as judges in an election that President Nicolás Maduro won. Who has invited them to question, to qualify?” said the dictator Ortega, accompanied by high-ranking Nicaraguan military officers, from the Olof Palme Convention Center in Managua, in an obvious act of interference and meddling in matters that only concern Venezuelans.
Hours earlier, Nicaragua’s vice-dictator Rosario Murillo had unleashed a string of insults against the Venezuelan opposition over protests in that country against electoral fraud carried out by dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Murillo called them “reptiles, ridiculous, dirty rags, garbage of history, worms, rags” while describing the protest demonstrations as “street theatre.”
In an act of political interference in the internal affairs of another state, and doing what she rejects when others from abroad point out her crimes, Murillo accused the Venezuelan opposition of promoting hatred, “perversity and misfortune.”
“We see a ridiculous reptile, the same as we have seen before people who rise up great and dignified, the nonsense, the rags, the dirty rags, the old rags, the screwed up because they are screwed up, they are spoils,” the vice-dictator bellowed, referring to the Venezuelan people who have taken to the streets to demand that the popular will expressed at the polls last Sunday be respected.
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According to the spokeswoman for the dictatorship, the culprits of what is happening in Venezuela are the developed countries, which she calls “empires” and accuses them of creating “misery, destruction, death and pain.”
Meanwhile, in Venezuela, the country’s Defense Minister, Vladimir Padrino, expressed the Armed Forces’ “absolute loyalty and unconditional support” for President Nicolás Maduro, amid protests against his questionable re-election.
Maduro is “our commander in chief, who has been legitimately reelected by the people’s power and proclaimed by the Electoral Power for the presidential term 2025-2031,” the minister said in a televised message. The Armed Forces are considered the main support of the Venezuelan government.
“We are clearly in the presence of fascism in its maximum expression, of an international structure that is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to discredit the extraordinary demonstration of civility that the Venezuelan people made in the last election day,” said Padrino López, while the civic and peaceful protests are being repressed and attacked with shots by armed men of Chavismo.
“We are going to defeat this coup d’état once again. No one can defeat the conscience of an entire people, no one can defeat the moral strength of an institution like the Armed Forces,” he said, remaining silent on the obscurity in which his bosses in Miraflores are maintaining the results of the vote in order to fraudulently impose themselves in the Executive.
