President of Venezuela Confirms That Whatsapp Is a Spying System
“I have called the people, voluntarily, to leave WhatsApp and go to other networks, Telegram, WeChat,”
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, confirmed this Wednesday that the WhatsApp messaging platform is a spying system and invited to migrate to other direct messaging platforms such as WeChat and Telegram by receiving in the Palace of Miraflores to the march of the fishing and agricultural sector.
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“I have called the people, voluntarily, to leave WhatsApp and go to other networks, Telegram, WeChat,” he said, referring to “threats by WhatsApp to popular leaders in the camps, in the neighborhoods”.
The president stressed that after the Venezuelan people resisted the economic attack, the producers achieved an agricultural miracle.
“The people of blue Venezuela, we threw this country on top and said to the right: “Here no one gives up” and we went to produce and achieved the agricultural miracle that lives Venezuela today: full supply with national production,” he said.
The head of state said that this achievement occurred “in the worst circumstances, where the people said: We will resist and fight”.
“At that time, it was demonstrated why we are known in the world as the people of liberators of America. We take out the sacred fire that no one takes away from us and that has driven us to defend the right to independence, sovereignty, peace and existence of our homeland and to emerge victorious”, he said.
Recalling the legacy of Commander Hugo Chávez, President Nicolás Maduro said that “the sacred fire we have stuck in our chest, that no one takes it away from us, and that has driven us to defend Venezuela: the right to independence, sovereignty” is the one who has allowed to go to the people “from victory, to victory”.
The Venezuelan president also said that the Miraflores palace, the presidential house of Venezuela, is home to all Venezuelans.
“It is the home of peasants, women farmers, fishermen, fishermen, youth, grandparents, working class, ordinary people,” he said.
This, in the face of “the US empire’s pretensions to assault political power in Venezuela on several occasions”.
In the same line, he highlighted the role of the people to defeat the attempts of «the surnames» to make their own Venezuela.
Regarding the summons by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) to the candidates and representatives of Venezuelan political parties, he said that on this day Edmundo González was called and did not appear.
Today they cited the fascist candidate, the murderous war criminal in El Salvador and now murderer in Venezuela, Edmundo González. He is a criminal, a fascist. From the day of the elections, he sent a group of young people to destroy and hid himself. He washed his hands like Pilate. The TSJ summoned him legally and it was mandatory that he go and did not go. Now, worse than Guaidó, he intends to do politics through Twitter and the right wing goes out to proclaim him president: Guaidó part two», he denounced.
The president stressed that the plan of the right is to give a fascist coup against the powers of the constitutional state of Venezuela; while, «imperialism claims to say that in Venezuela the gringo government, foreign governments and determine what works or not in Venezuela. What is that called? Colonialism».
«And I say to the people: let us preserve peace and strengthen production. The last word is with the Venezuelan institutions, because fascist criminals are cowards», he said.
President Nicolás Maduro denounces psychological war waged by WhatsApp
Previously, during the inauguration of the Vacation Plan of the Movement of Recreators and Recreadoras in Maturín, in the state of Monagas, the president had denounced the psychological war generated through WhatsApp, a platform where social leaders have been threatened, Street leaders, military and other sectors of Venezuelan society.
Stating that “WhatsApp gave the list it has in Venezuela to the Colombian drug traffickers and they did a spying job for months,” he remarked that this social network was used for a “psychological, cognitive warfare, threatened millions of leaders, communities, street leaders, military and police families, athletes, artists and anyone who did not speak out in favor of the coup d’état and violence”.
Meanwhile, he argued that he uninstalled WhatsApp from his phone and feels a free man, invited to uninstall hatred and war. “Anyone who did not speak out in support of fascist violence was threatened with chips from Colombia, the United States, Chile and Peru. It was a big operation. And everyone who wrote to me said it was via WhatsApp,” he said.
“Here is a law of telecommunications, if someone comes out and threatens one of you by radio» or any other means of communication, «that person right there seeks the Prosecutor (…) acts the law. What if a social network is used to threaten?” questioned the head of state.
You younger people had not seen the face of fascism, said the head of state, while recalling the more than 5,000 young men who were killed during February 27 and 28, when he ruled the right.
And when the coup d’état to Commander Chávez, he specified, while asking when communicating with the congregated, “do they want us among the Venezuelans to kill ourselves in a civil war?” , since that is the purpose of the extreme right.