News Desk

The Advocate Post: Nicaragua’s President, Daniel Ortega, has offered to send his “Sandinista fighters” to Venezuela, to support fellow authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro, on the account of a possible armed counterrevolution following the conflicted presidential election in July. Ever since Maduro’s electoral victory, widespread suspicion grew both within oppositions and abroad. Political violence broke out following thousands of Venezuelans protesting on the streets, resulting in the deaths of at least 24 citizens and one soldier. Reportedly, the government’s security forces have at least arrested 2,000 opposition sympathizers.

In a virtual summit involving heads of state from other Latin American countries, Ortega offered his support to Maduro in the case of an “armed counter-revolution”, assuring him that Sandinista fighters will accompany them in any foreseeable battle. The term “Sandinista” generally refers to members of the left-wing political movement, Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which rose at the end of the 1970’s in the Nicaraguan Revolution.

But Ortega has yet to specify whether if he was offering up police forces, military soldiers, or pro-government armed groups that right-wing groups have accused of conducting crackdowns along with the police in Nicaragua, in which he denied any links to.