Venezuela’s autocratic leader Nicolás Maduro accuses Musk of inciting hatred and allowing the opposition to use the service to cause unrest in the country.
15:20•Updated 15:22
Declared winner of the fraudulent presidential election in Venezuela Nicolás Maduro has prevented the country’s citizens from accessing the X messaging service for ten days.
In recent weeks, Maduro has had a stern exchange of knives in public with the billionaire owner of the platform Elon Musk’s with.
According to Maduro, Musk has broken every rule of his own service. Venezuela’s autocratic leader accuses Musk, among other things, of inciting hatred and allowing people to use the service to cause unrest in the country.
Maduro and Musk have been at loggerheads since Musk criticized Maduro for stealing the election.
– Shame on the dictator Maduro, Musk wrote on the messaging service X after Maduro had declared himself the winner of the election.
Maduro’s election victory has led to huge protests in Venezuela.
After the election, Maduro has spoken openly about the need to increase regulation of social media in Venezuela.
Venezuela was in South America the fifth largest economy At the start of Maduro’s presidency in 2013. During Maduro’s reign, the country’s economy has collapsed badly due to the collapse of oil prices and corruption in the country’s administration.
Due to poverty, more than six million people are in recent years fled the country.
The election result was widely disputed around the world
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on July 28. According to door-to-door surveys conducted during the elections, the opposition leader Edmundo González Urrutia got more than two-thirds of the votes.
Nevertheless, the country’s electoral commission declared Maduro the winner with 51 percent of the vote. The votes of the election have still not been published. The votes were sent for judicial review earlier this week.
The election result has been widely disputed around the world. The US State Department has stated that the votes sent for verification may be fake, since more than a week has already passed since the election.
Venezuela’s opposition says it managed to collect voting statistics from more than 80 percent of the country’s 30,000 polling stations. According to the information gathered by the opposition, the real winner of the election is González.
Source: AP
Corrected at 15:42 the claim that Musk spoke directly with Maduro.