Venezuela’s president denounces WhatsApp as a spying system

President Maduro of Venezuela denounces

WhatsApp as a spying system

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has accused

WhatsApp of operating as a spying tool and urged citizens to switch to alternative messaging apps such as Telegram and WeChat.

Speaking at a meeting in Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, the president asserted, "WhatsApp provided its list of Venezuelan users to Colombian drug traffickers, who then conducted months of espionage."