Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega during the ALBA virtual summit, this Monday
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva receives a medal during a meeting yesterday with medal-winning athletes from Paris 2024
SAN JOSE (EFE).— Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega yesterday declared relations with Brazil broken and called his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, “low-minded” 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 criticized 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 presidents of Latin America who has had a “brutal” and “cowardly” reaction by 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 and very revolutionary. Now that the elections (in Venezuela) have to be repeated, 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.”
“You are also crawling, Lula! You are crawling, Lula!” exclaimed Ortega, who also criticized the previous management of the Brazilian president.
He then recalled that during his first administration, corruption scandals such as the Lava Jato scandals broke out.
“Remember all that carefully (…). Apparently it was not a very clear, very clean government. Remember Lula and I could mention a dozen other 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 July 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.
Lula had a close relationship with Ortega since 1980, when the Brazilian leader traveled to Managua for the first anniversary of the Sandinista revolution, an occasion on which he also met then-Cuban President Fidel Castro.
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2024-09-09 15:12:52
