QCOSTARICA — Laura Chinchilla, former president of Costa Rica (2010-2014) and member of the Democratic Initiative of Spain and the Americas (IDEA) said that Daniel Ortega “represents nothing” after Nicaragua’s dictator’s statements offer to send Sandinista fighters to Venezuela in case a “counterrevolution” takes place.
In an interview with CNN en Español journalist Gabriela Frias, Chinchilla was asked about Ortega’s attack against the presidents of Brazil and Colombia, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Gustavo Petro, respectively.
“It is a good sign because the game is definitely here, whether the common sense and the positions of the Latin American democratic left, which is currently being led by the president of Chile, Gabriel Boric, will prevail, or whether what will prevail is the most shameful face that the Latin American left has had, clearly represented by the bloodthirsty dictator (Ortega) who heads this dynasty that governs and mistreats the Nicaraguan people, for many years now,” said Chinchilla.
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For the former president of Costa Rica, the Latin American left “is playing this game,” at the same time, she reiterated that Venezuela is increasingly closer to resembling Nicaragua.
“Today, the Venezuelan scenario cannot be connected, and I insist on this. All the signals we have received in recent days are of increased repression by this new cabinet, new in quotation marks because they are the same faces that are rearranging themselves with Diosdado Cabello moving to the security sector with more power. The only thing that anticipates is pressure, so it is good that these divisions on the left prevail, but we call for good sense to prevail and to align themselves with the position that Chile has been marking,” she said.
Regarding Ortega’s offer to send “Sandinista fighters” to Venezuela, Chinchilla said “Daniel Ortega does not count, that is to say, here the international community is not going to feel threatened by what Daniel Ortega says, it is a horror but it represents nothing, (Nicaragua) is a small and miserable country that has no firepower. So let’s not listen to what comes out of Ortega’s lips.”
Chinchilla assures that the next few days will be key to fine-tuning a strategy of pressure on 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 that took place in Nicaragua in the 1980s, in the midst of the Cold War.
“I want to warn Nicolás, and I’m sure you’ve already thought about it, 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 can now take up arms, as happened in the Central American country, said Ortega, who added that Colombia could be the scene where a Venezuelan “counterrevolution” is formed due to the extensive border the two countries share and where, he said, the United States has military bases.
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