The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, attended this Wednesday, August 21, the meeting with the Diplomatic Corps, from the headquarters of the Casa Amarilla (Seat of the Venezuelan Chancellory), where he described the coup attempts against the government of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, by the Venezuelan far right wing, as a “hybrid war”.
In this sense, the prosecutor included that they used mechanisms such as “Lawfare”, the attempted coup d’état, as well as messages containing hatred and discrimination towards a political party, also the attempted judicial war, uprising of military and police: “Within the hybrid war, there is talk of the use of common criminals, for actions that instrumentalize the final objective, which in this case was to overthrow a legitimately constituted government.” He also stressed that fascism seeks the extermination of a human group and “that is what they want to do with the Chavista group.”
He said that social networks have impacted the human mind to turn good into bad, unjust into just, as has been seen in Venezuela during this last time, this in reference to the violent acts that occurred in the country, after the presidential elections of July 28, where the head of state, Nicolás Maduro, was reelected, and the disowning (of the results) by the former opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia and his ally María Corina Machado, who have carried out a campaign of hate through these media:
“We cannot ignore it, it would not make sense to imagine that what happened before, during and after July 28 was a coincidence, it was something exceptional. I would say that it is part of that land of trials, which I have described in a very simple way, it is like having introduced in a gigantic macro blender (in the Venezuelan case) all the forms, methods and ways of hybrid warfare,” he added.
For his part, he reported that a well-known hacker gave details about the computer attack, which was aimed at an information blackout in the electronic data system of the National Electoral Council (CNE):
“There are details of how the Venezuelan electoral system was hacked, but what it could not achieve was the objective, which was an information blackout in the electronic data system, they slowed it down, they attacked it, but (their goal) was not just that, but to shut it down completely,” he added.
