The ruler of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, assured that “he is preparing”, together with his allies from Cuba and Nicaragua and other “older brothers of the world”, to “go into armed struggle” and defend his country from “fascism” , if necessary.
The statements came hours after the former president of Colombia, Álvaro Uribe, proposed an international intervention in Venezuelan territory.
“To fight the battle in the armed struggle and win it again, we were not born on the day of the cowards, nor of the faint-hearted, we are not lukewarm leaders (…) let no one make a mistake with Venezuela, let no one make a mistake with us. Nor is it by the good, by the good we will advance, and if it is by the bad, by the bad we will also defeat them,” he said this Saturday.
Maduro called Uribe a “coward,” who previously called for an “international intervention preferably endorsed by the United Nations” in Venezuela, to “evict the tyrants” from power.
“You come to the front of the troops, Álvaro Uribe, I’ll wait for you on the battlefield, coward, mean, fascist, criminal, drug trafficker, show your face, don’t command others,” said Maduro during the closing of an “anti-fascist” event. international” held in Caracas.
“No one in Venezuela wants a coup d’état, no one wants the military intervention that Uribe calls for, no one wants more sanctions,” he said.
Maduro, 62 years old, fHe was inaugurated on Friday for a new six-year periodamid demonstrations of “loyalty” by the military and police forces, and accusations by the opposition about the consummation of a “coup d’état.”
The opposition leader who is credited with the electoral victory, Edmundo González Urrutia, recognized as president-elect by several governments, assures that he continues working on the conditions to return to Venezuela to assume office, and He called on the military to “prepare” their security in that sense.
Both Maduro and González Urrutia, 75, in exile since September, take credit for the electoral victory. Despite the insistence of the international community that requested transparent and verifiable results, the electoral body did not disclose disaggregated data, but the opposition published minutes that its table witnesses kept.
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