Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, during a summit of leaders of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of the Americas (ALBA), promised Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro to provide “fighters” if an attempt at “armed counter-revolution” occurs in Venezuela against the backdrop of the results of the presidential elections.
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“Be sure that if the battle begins, you can count on the Sandinista (Nicaragua’s ruling party – Sandinista National Liberation Front) fighters,” Ortega assured Maduro during a virtual summit of ALBA leaders, which was broadcast on the organization’s official YouTube channel.
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The President of Nicaragua added that the coup could be fueled by the United States from Colombia, which borders Venezuela.
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“There (in Colombia) there are many Yankee military bases… it cannot be ruled out that they will organize an armed counter-revolution, as was the case with us,” Ortega said at the summit.
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The presidential elections in Venezuela were held on July 28, the next day the national electoral council declared Nicolas Maduro the elected president for 2025-2031, he received, according to the electoral council, 51% of the vote. On July 29, protests broke out in the country; in Caracas, clashes began between police and demonstrators, who began throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officers.
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According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, more than two thousand people have been detained in cases of destruction of state infrastructure, incitement of hatred and terrorism. The Venezuelan government has announced that a number of countries have interfered in the elections and violated the people’s right to self-determination.
