During the broadcast of the “Con Maduro+” program hosted by the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, through the “Más Ciencia” (More Science) segment, the vice president for Science, Technology, Education and Health, Gabriela Jiménez reported that the cyberwar attacked 126 state platforms; among them, the National Electoral Council (CNE) system:
“Since July 28, we have had an unprecedented attack on the platforms, 126 state platforms were attacked, such as the Federal Council of Government and these have gone to the sensitive structures of the State, to public and private services, in order to attack daily life and have affected the internet service in the Republic,” said Vice President Jiménez.
She informed the national leader that “the attacks mostly come from the United States, Mexico, France, Switzerland, and we have found the IPs, they have bot farms (…) they have reported 30 million attacks per minute. They have falsified our IP links, they have kidnapped information.”
The Minister of People’s Power for Science and Technology also reported that “the solution to these cyber attacks is to generate our own free software platforms, so that this does not happen and allows us to protect ourselves from these viruses.” That is why she announced that they have a structure of more than 200 experts dedicated to working with international cooperation, to create free software.
In this sense, the national leader denounced that they liquidated the entire CNE system, in order to be able to communicate with the population. He also referred that, “if the solution is free software, we are going to get into free software, with all our strength, with all our power.”
He assured that “the attack is on the functioning of the society we have, of high technology, we have to free the country from dependencies and create our own capabilities. Someday other powerful countries will produce the internet (…) The BRICS already know they are opening a new world, one of sharing, of cooperation, of development, and that is why it is the desperation of wild decadent capitalism, which seeks its salvation in fascism.”
Hatred on social networks:
Regarding the hatred that is produced on social networks, the head of State indicated “they use social networks extended in the world to build fascist currents, to make them visible and sell to youth. That is why they use influencers, because youth is the one who knows influencers best, who first attract you through a stand up (…)”. He assured that influencers have no idea of the damage they cause.
“In the end, I believe that influencers are mercenaries, sociopaths, and many of them have been out of the country for years, they simply end up affiliated with whoever pays them, the cyber attack is not only to harm the country, it is to use social networks to saturate and poison with hate,” he said.
President Maduro added that the country is now experiencing the pandemic of fascist hatred on Tik Tok, on Facebook, on Instagram, and that it runs among the youth and among many people. That is why, “we have to make a great educational cultural revolution and I believe that it is the great vaccine, our great vaccine is the educational, cultural revolution, the revolution of values and starting with the children, the girls and the youth (…) it cannot be that they are creating a youth of young people who hate again, because we had already healed society of hatred. The Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church have a great job of healing the youth, to heal us of fascist hatred.”
He pointed out that influencers attack themselves, they attack artists who live in Venezuela, that is why he thanked the support of the Artists Movement, the Mission Viva Venezuela Mi Patria Querida, the Urban Artists Movement, Project M, because they supported an electoral campaign full of joy, enthusiasm and peace.
