"You are crawling too, Lula, you are crawling! If you want me to respect you, respect me, Lula, if you want the Bolivarian people to respect you, respect President Nicolás Maduro's victory and don't go around crawling.

Servile, traitorous, crawling governments, governments that presented themselves as very progressive, very revolutionary, now say the elections must be repeated. Brazil says it, Lula. [...] We don't need intermediaries, nor did we ask Lula to be an intermediary, so we didn't respond to Lula, and then he got upset."

"Don't rule out the possibility that they will organize an armed counterrevolution like the one they organized for us in 1979-80, after the triumph of the Revolution, which they financed, armed, and trained, supported by the U.S. military bases in Honduras. It was a long battle, 10 years of war that we had to fight, with thousands of deaths, more than 50,000.

Nicolás, you must prepare to fight and defeat them. I'm sure that if that battle takes place, they will be defeated, and rest assured that if it happens, you will have Sandinista fighters alongside you."

“Caring for citizens, preserving their interests, following up on their affairs, and providing them with all aspects of care are a top priority for the UAE,” the Arab Kingdoms' ministry said in the statement.