President of Nicaragua rails at the so-called democrats

Managua, Jul 31 (Prensa Latina) President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega referred to the recent elections held in Venezuela where the opposition does not recognize the victory of Nicolás Maduro, and affirmed that those who call themselves democrats do not respect the vote of the people.

July 31, 2024
07:38

During an event held on Tuesday for the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Nicaraguan Air Force, the president recalled the electoral victories in Venezuela since the time of Hugo Chávez, whom they also tried to remove from power in 2002, using a coup d’état that later failed. “The forces of the people were decisive, and with the people, the military who were loyal to the president, loyal to Chávez, together, they defeated the coup plotters and Chávez regained the presidency,” he recalled.

Ortega commented that ever since there is a diabolical germ of those who call themselves democrats and are nothing more than tyrants who do not respect the people, because they want them to suffer hunger and difficulties while they get richer every day.

The Sandinista leader pointed out that those who carried out the coup against Chávez are the same ones who now, supported from abroad, intend to repeat the history against Maduro, who was proclaimed by the Supreme Electoral Council (CNE) as the winner of the elections with the 51.20 percent of the votes.

“There the plan began to develop with greater fury, the plan that the coup plotters, the terrorists, had been executing long before the elections, and on July 29th we saw the other candidate, who was the puppet of the extreme right, declaring that he was the president; they had already paid and bought off the humble people of the neighborhoods,” Correa emphasized.

The president also referred to the media manipulation that has been taking place since before the elections and assured that the groups plotting the coup had a plan against Maduro well-devised, just as it happened in Nicaragua in April 2018.

Correa alluded to the violent actions recorded in recent days in Venezuela, where several law enforcement personnel were injured. “This behavior reflects that the plan was already very well organized, that part of the plan was for numerous Latin American governments to all rail against the electoral results and say that the elections had not been correct,” he stressed.

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