Maduro’s deputy foreign minister lashes out at Boric: “You have no morals”

Venezuela’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Latin America, Rander Peña, urged Chilean President Gabriel Boric on Tuesday to wash his mouth before talking about the country, after the president described the government of Nicolás Maduro as a “dictatorship.”

“You can’t stand President Nicolás Maduro’s gaze, you have no morals, you lack a lot. Wash your mouth before talking about Venezuela and our people,” Peña said in a message he shared on Telegram.

The vice-chancellor, as a “young Latin American and leftist,” accused Boric of betraying and using “the Chilean people” after having presented himself as “a leftist and popular option.”

“You ended up crawling submissively towards the Pinochet right, begging them for mercy and forgiveness in exchange for your servile, obedient spokesperson for fascism. You have stolen hope from your people. We have seen throughout these years of popular struggle, little people like you who, seeking notoriety, end up being part of the club of losers,” said Peña.

The Venezuelan official also called Boric a “coward” and a “failure.”

On Tuesday, in his third speech before the United Nations General Assembly, the Chilean president said that his country is “especially attentive” to the “critical situation in Venezuela.”

“We are facing a dictatorship that intends to steal an election, that persecutes its opponents and that is indifferent to the exile of not thousands, but millions of its citizens,” Boric said.

Llicked to recognize the “victory” of the opposition in the elections of July 28, in which Maduro was declared the winner by the National Electoral Council (CNE) based on results that are not recognized by the majority of countries because they do not have the minutes to confirm it.

The majority opposition – grouped in the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD) – claims the “victory” of its standard-bearer, Edmundo González Urrutia, exiled in Spain since September 8.