Maduro treated José Mujica and Alberto Fernández with "stupid"

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro today described as "stupid" those who describe Venezuela as a dictatorship, answering questions about criticism of his government by former Uruguayan President José Mujica and the candidate for the Argentine presidency, Alberto Fernández.

In addition, he compared the Venezuelan opposition linked to Leopoldo López with the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, and declared that he was working for peace as the country was preparing to defend its territory in case of a conflict. Military intervention.

"To say that Venezuela is a dictatorship is a historical stupidity, and whoever will say that it is stupid," said Maduro in an interview with the Brazilian newspaper Folha from Sao Paulo.

Folha Sao Paulo asked if the stupid qualification would also go to former president Mujica and Maduro replied, "Whoever it is."

The reporter who conducted the interview, Mónica Bergamo, reminded Maduro that Alberto Fernádnez had declared that there were abuses and Maduro replied: "Whoever says it, where I say it [que es una dictadura], is stupid. Venezuela is respected; Venezuela is a solid democracy, threatened and besieged ".

"At a time when Venezuela is undergoing its greatest siege, attacking it from the left or the center-left is a cowardice against a noble people, who has resisted and will continue to resist and win with the votes", said the president.

The president said in the interview that there were contacts at different levels with the US government and that they existed at the military level with Brazil.

"There were still contacts with the Brazilian military forces and I think they should continue." Bolsonaro is an ideological extremist, said his admiration for [el dictador chileno Augusto] Pinochet, who is the Hitler of South America, "he warned.

"It is stupid for Bolsonaro to declare himself an admirer of Pinochet and to badert that the Bolivarian revolution is a dictatorship," he said, accusing the former Brazilian military captain of 39, having "the intention to suppress the aggression against Venezuela".

Maduro lamented that "in front of many governments in South America, there are no politicians with a capital letter, a doctrine, who know how to respect diversity" and felt that Bolsonaro, "he was a statesman, with the common border we have, he should have minimal communication with Venezuela. "

"The days will come when Brazil will have a government with which we understand," he said.

Maduro said that in 20 years, 25 elections were held at all levels of administration and that Chavez 's forces won at 23.

"Of the 23 governors, 19 are Bolivarian, out of 335 mayors, 307 are ours, by vote, all we have is by popular vote," he said.

He also said that the report of Chilean President Michele Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, "tells lies" about the situation in Venezuela, based on press articles foreign.

Bachelet's team, according to Maduro, "has not seen the tremendous efforts made by our people amid the siege of the economic, deeply criminal blockade".

According to Donald Maduro, the threats of intervention by Donald Trump and Bolsonaro "incited the Bolivarian national armed forces to be ideologically and institutionally", commenting on the green light to intervene with the approval of the TIAR voted last week by L & # 39; OEA (Telam)