{"id":1080060,"date":"2021-12-03T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1080060"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T15:28:52","slug":"super-mustache-maduro-debuts-superhero-persona-in-venezuelan-propaganda-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/super-mustache-maduro-debuts-superhero-persona-in-venezuelan-propaganda-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Super Mustache&#039;: Maduro Debuts Superhero Persona in Venezuelan Propaganda Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuper-mustache-maduro-debuts-superhero-persona-in-venezuelan-propaganda-cartoon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1080060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">State television network&nbsp;Venezolana de Televisi\u00f3n (VTV) debuted a bizarre cartoon series this week titled <em>Super Mustache<\/em> in which socialist dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro blocks an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the country by former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro, illustrated with his widely recognizable facial hair, appears wearing an outfit nearly identical to the American superhero Superman, including a cape and blue briefs worn on the outside of red leggings. The Venezuelan people appear clamoring to him to solve a national blackout after Trump sends an unspecified missile to fly over Venezuela and disable its electric grid.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In reality, Venezuela suffers from regular blackouts as a result of the Maduro regime\u2019s poor management of the electric system. The socialist authoritarian regime has failed throughout Maduro\u2019s reign to ensure secure access to electricity, gasoline (despite Venezuela\u2019s prodigious oil reserves), food, health care, and nearly every other basic need for daily life in a developed country. Prior to socialist dictator Hugo Ch\u00e1vez taking power in 1999, Venezuela was the wealthiest country in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Super Mustache<\/em> cartoon depicts Trump conspiring with unseemly depictions of two members of the Venezuelan establishment opposition \u2013 former lawmaker Julio Borges and current Socialist International Vice President Henry Ramos Allup \u2013 to stage a coup against Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"S\u00faperBigote, cap\u00edtulo 1 (comiquita, corto animado)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/muNGhgNb5vM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re asses, you can\u2019t topple a simple bus driver?\u201d the stylized Trump villain asks the two opposition leaders in a call from the Oval Office. Maduro worked as a bus driver before abruptly ascending to the post of Foreign Minister under Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re tried everything \u2013 cheating, lies \u2026 the OAS [Organization of American States], but nothing!\u201d the two Venezuelans respond.<\/p>\n<p>The conversation ends with Trump deciding to execute what appears to be an EMP attack that shuts down all electricity in the country, causing nationwide chaos and prompting random people to call for \u201cSuper Mustache\u201d to save them.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro, in response, flies into the sky and punches an evil American aircraft, shattering it into pieces and restoring the electric grid. The relationship between the aircraft and the EMP attack remains unexplained, as the aircraft appears to be flying over Venezuela long after the electric grid stops working.<\/p>\n<p>The faulty science and incorrect crediting to Maduro of any functionality the Venezuelan electric grid currently retains echoes real-life claims by the Maduro regime that the United States deliberately shut down power in the country in 2019. In March of that year, a national blackout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/03\/08\/maduro-massive-venezuelan-blackout-directed-imperialist-united-states\/\">deprived<\/a> Venezuelans of power in 22 of 23 states and the national capital district, Caracas \u2013 the longest blackout in the country in three decades. The blackout appeared to be caused by severe neglect on the part of the Maduro regime, which has allowed core infrastructure from power plants to oil refineries to decay beyond repair.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Maduro, however, blamed the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe electrical war announced and directed by the imperialist United States against our people will be defeated!\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/07\/world\/americas\/venezuela-power-outage-blackout-apagon.html\">wrote<\/a> on social media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18364050\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maduro.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18364050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Maduro.jpeg\" alt=\"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, January 22, 2021. (AP Photo\/Matias Delacroix)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a ceremony marking the start of the judicial year at the Supreme Court in Caracas, Venezuela, January 22, 2021. (AP Photo\/Matias Delacroix)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhat was the objective of this new attack? To deprive Venezuela\u2019s people of electricity,\u201d Maduro\u2019s \u201cvice president\u201d Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, who once falsely claimed that American humanitarian aid was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/02\/13\/maduros-vice-president-tells-venezuelans-not-eat-poisoned-u-s-food-aid\/\">carcinogenic<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/03\/26\/more-blackouts-venezuela-regime-blames-americas-fascist-right\/\">said<\/a> at the time, blaming the \u201cattack\u201d on \u201cthe fascist right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The March national blackout was one of several similar events that year that have continued to this day, typically occurring in spurts regionally rather than plunging the entire country into darkness simultaneously \u2013 largely debunking the claim that the blackouts are the result of American sabotage. A Venezuelan advocacy group documented over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/12\/17\/venezuelas-national-electric-grid-failed-over-80000-times-in-2019\/\">80,000<\/a> power grid failures nationwide in 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Aside from <em>Super Mustache<\/em>, Maduro regime has yet to publicly show any evidence linking the power outages to the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuper Mustache\u201d made his debut during stream-of-consciousness remarks by Maduro in 2019 in an extended rant against then-Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno. Moreno, elected under a leftist party coalition but rapidly shedding that affiliation and rejected the socialist establishment in his country, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/10\/04\/ecuador-declares-state-of-emergency-as-violent-protests-sweep-major-cities\/\">working<\/a> at the time to curtail riots across the country organized by angry leftists against a proposal to limit a longstanding gas subsidy. In scenes that have become common throughout the Americas, including the nation of America itself, leftists looted businesses, threw Molotov cocktails at law enforcement, and otherwise engaged in acts of group violence until Moreno relented on his gasoline policy.<\/p>\n<p>Lenin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/10\/22\/ecuadors-president-calls-nicolas-maduro-an-ass-after-stupid-insult\/\">announced<\/a> following police investigations that authorities had found links between the rioters and the Maduro regime, prompting the dictator\u2019s rant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLenin Moreno came out to say that what is happening over there is my fault,\u201d Maduro said, \u201cthat I twitch my mustache and governments fall, that\u2019s what Lenin Moreno says.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not Superman, I\u2019m Super Mustache,\u201d Maduro joked.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Maduro present\u00f3 a \u201cS\u00faper bigote\u201d\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37ERZydPI8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Maduro\u2019s state propaganda network VTV regularly dabbles in animation to promote the socialist regime\u2019s agenda. From the beginning of Maduro\u2019s stay in power, in 2013, VTV began airing cartoons of recently deceased Ch\u00e1vez in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2013\/06\/14\/chavez-in-heaven-cartoon-mocks-uncle-sam\/\">arrives<\/a> in Heaven and joins Venezuelan founding father Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and mass murderer Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara.<\/p>\n<p>VTV has also aired cartoons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2020\/06\/06\/how-venezuelas-maduro-strong-armed-directv-into-airing-propaganda-and-charging-1-for-it\/\">depicting<\/a> Maduro as a friendly bus driver \u2013 amid years of violent protests and human rights violations that have resulted in an International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation \u2013 and opposition leaders as ugly villains intent on destroying the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1638617523324000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0SjTOuxvnhi88QaEA0UF1m\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1638617523324000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mBVPpPW0K1yrAl90rK1E0\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State television network\u00a0Venezolana de Televisi\u00f3n (VTV) debuted a bizarre cartoon series this week titled Super Mustache in which socialist dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro blocks an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}