Pres. Ortega | "Chavez's win broke the law of gravity"
Statements by President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, at the ALBA-TCP Extraordinary Summit. teleSUR
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00:00He said that, it's a very famous phrase, for now, and this became a reality, and they decided to go down the path of elections.
00:27And I've said this repeatedly in Venezuela, when Chavez was alive, the eternal commander Hugo Chavez, you have broken the law of gravity here.
00:53You've done something unprecedented in the region. Because in Chile, there was a revolution, but that revolution was defeated, demolished, soon after.
01:10But in Venezuela, the revolution triumphed with a great victory. In Chile, the right was very strong, and it was a tight election, a tight victory.
01:31On the contrary, in Venezuela, it was an overwhelming victory, that not only generated a lot of joy in the Venezuelan people, but also the rest of the region was overjoyed by this victory of Chavez in Venezuela.
01:58Now, who could have imagined that such a victory would occur? And who could have thought that the Yankees would very quickly organize a coup d'etat against President Chavez?
02:16They were so hurt by the coup they received in Venezuela, a political, moral, economic powerhouse. They were so hurt that they quickly organized a coup against Chavez.
02:46But then you said, every 11th of April, it's the 13th of April, and it happened, and Chavez came back victorious.
03:01And Chavez and Fidel, together, were thinking about the unity of our peoples, how to move forward in the struggle for unity.
03:31That is why we can, today,