from RT
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused tech tycoon Elon Musk of “investing” at least $1 billion in inciting violence in the South American country after the presidential election earlier this year.
Maduro was declared the winner of the July 28 poll by the national election authorities, though the US claimed that victory had been stolen from opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez.
During his weekly television program on Monday, Maduro alleged to have direct knowledge that Musk – with whom he has been engaged in a long-running public feud – had spent “no less than $1 billion” on “the coup d’etat, the fascist outbreak, the violence against the electoral process in Venezuela.”
The Venezuelan leader named his political opponent, businesswoman Maria Corina Machado, as the distributor of the alleged funding to “fascist” groups, claiming that the US government was ultimately behind attempts to oust him from power...
Musk has previously expressed support for removing foreign governments
in pursuit of his corporate interests. In July 2020, he was challenged
online with a claim that Washington had orchestrated a coup against
Bolivian President Evo Morales so that his electric car company, Tesla,
could secure access to the country’s rich lithium reserves. Musk
responded with a post: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”...
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