Daniel Ortega offers “Sandinista fighters” to Nicolás Maduro

He President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortegaoffered this Monday to his ally Nicolás Maduro to send “Sandinista fighters” in case a “counterrevolution” breaks out in Venezuela.

During a virtual summit with heads of state of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), Ortega told Maduro not to rule out a civil war in Venezuela, like the one fought in Nicaragua in the 1980s of the last century, in the middle of the Cold War.

“I want to warn Nicolás, and I’m sure you’ve already thought about this, analyzed it and are prepared (…), since this maneuver (to reverse the election results) has already failed for them (the Venezuelan opposition), and there is no turning back, there is no step back, Nicolás is the legitimate president,” they may now take up arms, as happened in the Central American country, said Ortega, the Sandinista leader.

Colombia, the scene of a “counterrevolution”

According to the Sandinista leader, Colombia could be the stage where a Venezuelan “counterrevolution” is formed because of the long border it shares with Venezuela, and where, he said, the United States has military bases.

The Nicaraguan president commented that he does not see Colombian President Gustavo Petro “feeding” this possible “mercenary army,” but he does see other former rulers, among whom he mentioned Álvaro Uribe and Iván Duque.

«There (in Colombia) are Yankee military bases and, therefore, do not rule out, because imperialism is today more wounded than ever by this victory (in Venezuela), do not rule out that they organize an armed counterrevolution, like the ones they organized against us” during the first Sandinista government, he indicated.

In that scenario, the Sandinista leader said that the “battle” in Venezuela “would be much bigger” than the one in Nicaragua, “because it involves the Colombian Army, Colombian mercenaries, Colombian assassins, Colombian drug traffickers.”

Ortega advises Maduro

Therefore, Ortega advised Maduro “Prepare to fight and defeat them, because I am sure that if that battle is fought, they will be defeated.«.

“And rest assured that if that battle comes to pass, you will have Sandinista fighters accompanying you in that battle,” he said.

“And I am certain that just as thousands of (foreign) combatants joined the battle in Nicaragua against (Anastasio) Somoza (Debayle), thousands of Latin American and Caribbean combatants will also join in the defense of the Bolivarian revolution,” he added.

Nicaragua is one of the few Latin American countries that has recognized Nicolás Maduro as president-elect, even though Venezuelan electoral authorities have not yet presented the minutes of a process that the opposition has denounced as fraudulent.