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NEW – Venezuela’s Maduro says he has a Huawei smartphone gifted by Xi, calling it “the best in the world” and immune to U.S. surveillance pic.twitter.com/4xk8eQVce6 — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) September 3, 2025
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a temporary ban on X (formerly Twitter) in the country. The decision followed his war of words with the platform’s CEO, Elon Musk, who has accused Maduro of election fraud. In a televised speech on Thursday, Maduro accused the tech mogul of “inciting hatred, fascism, civil war, death, [and] confrontation …
BREAKING: Maduro says he can't show the true election result because @elonmusk hacked the National Electoral Council of Venezuela pic.twitter.com/Ef0Wnzb2n7 — Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) August 2, 2024
“The socialist dictator of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro threatened a “bloodbath” and a “fratricidal civil war” on Wednesday if Venezuelans do not “elect” him in the upcoming July 28 sham presidential election. Maduro issued his warning during a campaign rally speech in the La Vega Parrish of Caracas, asserting that his victory is the only way …
via Zerohedge: A panicking Joe Biden has realized that his best friends, now that oil prices are soaring again and the SPR remains largely drained, are tinpot banana-republic “dictators” (in the White House’s own words) like Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, and on Wednesday the White House suspended sanctions on Venezuelan oil, gas and gold production. But since it …