“WhatsApp handed over to Venezuelan terroriststo the devil this demon Machado, terrorist and murderer, fugitive from Justice, and to the war criminal Edmundo González Urrutia and his commandos (…) the entire database of Venezuelawho you are, your family, your friends, what you talk about, what you don’t talk about, what videos you share, what your tastes are, etc.,” said Maduro.
The “comanditos” are structures of citizen organization which were formed during the electoral campaign of González Urrutia, standard-bearer of the main opposition coalition, the Democratic Unitary Platform (PUD).
Since last week, Maduro leads a campaign against social networks and applications such as WhatsApp, which – he says – is being used in the country to threaten military and police officers, as well as community leaders, for which he repeatedly asks the population to eliminate it, A process that he said on Tuesday should be “accelerated”without showing messages that prove their accusations.
“We need to get to the point of freeing WhatsApp from our lives“, said the president in a meeting with young people, broadcast by the state channel VTV, during which he stated that this application “is in the hands of technological imperialism, enemies of Venezuela and humanity.”
BREAKING NEWS | Maduro claimed that WhatsApp gave “the entire database” of Venezuela to María Corina Machado and Edmundo González pic.twitter.com/Htj2QLJ8nd
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Maduro, who last Thursday ordered the social network X to be taken out of circulation for 10 days, insists on these accusations after the presidential elections of July 28, in which, according to the electoral body, he won, a result rejected by the majority opposition, which denounces “fraud” and which generated multiple protests in the countryviewed by the Government as “criminal” and “terrorist” actions.
According to state sources, More than 2,400 people have been arrested since July 29 – some in demonstrations and others in police operations-, while 25 people died in acts of violence which the Government attributes to the opposition, while the anti-Chavez movement blames the State security forces, on orders from their superiors.
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