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Maduro accused Miley of spending more than $100 million of Argentina’s budget for bot attacks against Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused this Monday his Argentine counterpart Javier Miley of spending more than $ 100 million of the Argentine budget on bot attacks against the Caribbean nation. The Chavista president denounced the “escalation of cyberwar against the country through bots” from Argentina, following the presidential elections in Venezuela in which, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE), Maduro was re-elected for a third consecutive term of six years, a result labeled “fraudulent” and “scam” by the Miley government.

“Which bot farms are attacking us in Argentina? The bot farms of Miley of Fascism have spent more than $100 million in the last two weeks of attacks with money from the Argentine government budget,” he said, without showing any evidence, during his weekly program ‘Con Maduro+’ broadcast on the state-run channel VTV. Likewise, he pointed out, without directly blaming anyone for these actions, that these types of attacks have also been recorded from Spain, the European country’s “extreme-right” and from Mexico.

“(The bots) harass you, the bot war has one purpose, to make you feel rejected, attacked, alone, afraid of not having social recognition or rejection, and it has another purpose, to fill the mind of some crazy person with hate, then one day, you go out to the street and they attack you verbally, physically, it’s a very dirty fascist campaign,” Maduro said. Argentina was one of the first countries to call the results announced by the CNE “fraudulent” and recently recognized the majority opposition candidate, Edmundo González Urrutia, as the “undisputed winner” of the presidential elections.