Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced on Sunday that his country is facing a cyberfascist coup that seeks to divide the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).
“I am talking about cyber-crime coup, in this case a criminal cyberfascist coup (…) for them it is vital to injure the Bolivarian National Armed Forces from within, to try to divide it, demoralize it, demobilize it, because they continue to believe that the Venezuelan military is subordinate to the orders of the blue blood oligarchy or the American empire,” Maduro said during a speech in a military act.
The president detailed that the attack is carried out through the various social networks.
That’s why the cyberbullying campaign in WhatsApp’s accounts, calls and messages (…) nothing new that we haven’t seen in the other films, nothing new that the filthy rat of (Juan) Guaidó has not done, when they tried to invade the country from Colombia, he said.
In this regard, Maduro said that the FANB is cohesive, united and in the “combate for peace, democracy and the Constitution.”
He also congratulated the Bolivarian National Guard for achieving order and security following protests over the presidential elections on 28 July.
On Friday, the National Electoral Council issued a second bulletin with 96.87 percent of the minutes scrutinized, in which it ratified Maduro’s triumph with 51.95 percent of the vote, compared to Gonzalez, who would have obtained 43.18 percent.
According to the agency, the elections reached a turnout of 12,386,669 voters, equivalent to 59.97 per cent of the roll.
On Sunday, the Democratic Unitarian Platform (PUD, center), under which González presented himself, ignored the results and announced as president-elect the former diplomat.
Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Uruguay refused from the outset to recognize Maduro’s re-election, which led Caracas to withdraw its diplomatic personnel in those nations and the expulsion of the missions that those countries had in Venezuela.
On Tuesday, the Government of Peru recognized González as the president-elect of Venezuela, which led Caracas to break diplomatic relations with Lima.
Panama, for its part, put relations with Venezuela on hold.
This article has been translated after first appearing in El Pais