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Maduro calls Elon Musk his new “archenemy”

Tuesday, July 30th 2024 - 08:53 UTC
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“Whoever messes around with me dries out,” Maduro warned “Whoever messes around with me dries out,” Maduro warned

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Monday that tycoon Elon Musk was his new “archenemy.” He insisted the South African entrepreneur had plans to invade Venezuela ”with his rockets and satellites.

“There is something called social networks, which create a virtual reality, and who controls virtual reality? Our new archenemy, the famous Elon Musk,” Maduro argued. “He would like to come with his rockets and an army to invade Venezuela,” he added from the National Electoral Council (CNE) headquarters in Caracas as he was proclaimed as the winner of Sunday's elections.

Maduro also explained that Musk had published on his social network X a video “of people taking some things, some boxes” claiming that those images proved he had stolen the elections. The Chavist leader said that such a posting was “embarrassing” on Musks's part.

“Venezuela respects itself,” he also stressed while challenging Musk to a fistfight. ”Do you want a fight? Let's fight it, Elon Musk. I'm ready (...), I'm not afraid of you. Let's fight it, then, wherever you want (...) Say where, but Venezuela is respected.“

Musk had called Maduro a ”dictator” after Sunday's “major election fraud” while quoting Argentine President Javier Milei announcing a landslide victory of the opposition.

“Elon Musk is desperate, control yourself,” he warned. “Whoever messes around with me dries out,” Maduro also warned.

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  • Don Alberto

    Oh, the poor dear, he needs an enemy, any enemy, in desperate attempt to divert attention away from the fact, that he swindled at the election.

    Jul 31st, 2024 - 05:32 pm 0
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