Maradona, 56, was a friend of Maduro's late predecessor Hugo Chavez and joined in his anti-US Bolivarian socialist rhetoric.
Nicolas Maduro
Buenos Aires: Argentine football hero Diego Maradona defended Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday over a deadly political crisis in which the socialist leader’s opponents have branded him a dictator.
Maradona, 56, was a friend of Maduro’s late predecessor Hugo Chavez and joined in his anti-US “Bolivarian” socialist rhetoric.
“We are Chavistas to the death. When Maduro gives an order, I will serve as a soldier for a free Venezuela, to fight against imperialism,” Maradona wrote in a message on Facebook. “Long live Chavez. Long live Maduro. Long live the revolution,” he wrote.
( Source : AFP )
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