Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has broken off relations with Brazil, and He called his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “a creep” and wanting to be the “representative of the Yankees” in Latin America.
During a virtual summit with heads of state of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), Ortega questioned Lula for his critical position on the controversial result of the elections held on July 28, which gave victory to President Nicolás Maduro with 51.9% of the votes compared to 43.2% for opposition candidate Edmundo González.
The Sandinista leader said that Lula is one of the Latin American presidents who has had a “brutal” and “cowardly” reaction for not recognizing Maduro’s victory, and that he is part of the “servile, traitorous, groveling governments.”
It is a “government that has presented itself as very progressive, as very revolutionary. Now that the elections have to be repeated (in Venezuela), they say so. Brazil, Lula says so,” he reproached.
Ortega said that Lula “in a shameful way” is “repeating the slogans of the Yankees and the Europeans, and of the groveling governments of Latin America.”
Ortega to Lula: “You are dragging your feet”
“You’re crawling too, Lula! You’re crawling, Lula!”exclaimed Ortega, who also criticized the previous government management of the Brazilian president.
He recalled that during his first administration, corruption scandals such as the Lava Jato scandals broke out.
“Remember all that well (…). Apparently it was not a very clear, very clean Government. Remember Lula and I could mention a dozen more things.“, he continued.
“If you want me to respect you, respect me, Lula. If you want the Bolivarian people to respect you, respect the victory of President Nicolás Maduro and don’t go groveling,” he added.
On August 8, the Brazilian ambassador to Nicaragua, Breno de Souza Brasil Días da Costa, left the country after being expelled by the Ortega government, according to the official version, for not attending the event celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution on July 19.
In reciprocity, the Brazilian government decided to expel the Nicaraguan ambassador, Fulvia Castro.
In another part of his speech, Ortega offered “Sandinista fighters” to go fight for Venezuela in the event of “an intervention” from Colombia.
“There are Yankee military bases there (in Colombia) and, therefore, do not rule out, because imperialism is today more hurt 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.
The Nicaraguan president commented that he does not see the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, “feeding” this possible “mercenary army”but yes to other former rulers, among whom he mentioned Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) and Iván Duque (2018-2022).
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