The WhatsApp application on a cellphone. File photo.
“WhatsApp is the main instrument of imperialist and Zionist espionage to persecute peoples and kill,” said the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, condemning the attack on Qatar, in which “Israel” had targeted the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ headquarters in Doha.
On Thursday, September 11, President Maduro criticized the role of WhatsApp as a tool for global espionage, used to control the peoples of the world with actions he described as “traitorous and criminal.”
“My solidarity with the Emir of Qatar—my brother—and with the people of Qatar,” he said.
He also made an urgent call to the Arab people to react “before it is too late,” and warned about the systematic use of digital platforms for control and aggression against sovereign leaders.
He pointed out that the attack was coordinated through WhatsApp. The application allows hegemonic powers to “record everything: They know your whole life, they saw the video, they read the message, they have the photos, they have the location.”
He added that on August 28 last year, he had spoken about the dangers of the platform as a tool for espionage.
President Maduro urged the Venezuelan people and the nations of the world to take concrete measures against this digital threat: “Remove WhatsApp from your life and be free and live happily!”
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It should be noted that beneath the appearance of a useful and everyday tool, WhatsApp hides control machinery designed to surveil, manipulate, and neutralize those who dare to think differently, to resist, to fight for their sovereignty.
It is not a coincidence that the treacherous and criminal attack against Qatar was coordinated through it. It is not by chance that WhatsApp’s algorithms map one’s life, that they know what one sees, what one says, what one thinks. It is a silent war, a digital massacre, an invisible colonization that infiltrates phones.
In this context, the Venezuelan leader’s call is not just a warning but a firm defense of technological sovereignty, the self-determination of peoples, and the urgent need to break the digital chains imposed by imperialism.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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