The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, makes inflamed and ironic rhetoric his main weapon of counterattack. This Wednesday he did it again when, during an act to promote tourism, he took the opportunity to respond to recent criticism of the publication on social networks of campaigns favorable to his government where fictitious characters created by computer appear.
“Now that there are UFOs in the United States. Have you seen? Balloons and UFOs, let the aliens come to Venezuela! Now that we have digital robots. I am a digital robot, the people are a digital robot,” said the leader chavista.
Maduro responded in this way, directly and quoting him, to the Madrid newspaper El País, which this week published that the Venezuelan regime uses the Synthesia software to create videos where digital avatars spread the alleged economic achievements of the Chavista regime, through YouTube, TikTok and other social networks.
“It is not artificial intelligence, it is popular intelligence, revolutionary intelligence, of those who defeated the Spanish empire here, Bolivarian intelligence,” continued the Venezuelan president, during an act in the state of La Guaira where he affirmed that his government has proposed to make the tourism industry replace the oil economy as the engine of the country.
However, neither the president nor his Minister of Tourism, Ali Padrón, have provided relevant figures on an alleged increase in foreign tourism in Venezuela, beyond the fact that the country has taken advantage of the sanctions on Russia, due to the war of Ukraine, to receive thousands of Russian tourists this year. Venezuela has also signed a tourism agreement with Poland.
“Tourism is the secret weapon for the development of the new Venezuelan economic model, for the new stage of Venezuela’s economic renaissance. Tourism, tourism, tourism and more tourism!” Maduro said on Wednesday. And he reiterated it: “National tourism, international tourism, and if possible galactic too, that aliens come to Venezuela”.