{"id":159753,"date":"2024-08-10T10:21:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T14:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=159753"},"modified":"2024-08-10T10:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T14:21:27","slug":"nicolas-maduro-challenges-elon-musk-to-a-fight-musk-accepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159753","title":{"rendered":"Nicol\u00e1s Maduro challenges Elon Musk to a fight, Musk accepts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cage-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-146081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cage-1-240x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cage-1-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cage-1-266x333.png 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/cage-1.png 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little dated, but a change of pace&#8230; Nicol\u00e1s Maduro spoke on national TV, in Venezuela, criticizing Elon Musk&#8217;s actions. Musk generated posts, on X, detailing what the actual vote count was for Venezuela&#8217;s presidential election. Maduro talked about the &#8220;failures&#8221; of &#8220;right-wing&#8221; politics\/politicians, and he also challenged Elon Musk to a fight. Maduro &#8220;flexed&#8221; by declaring himself a son of Bolivar and Chavez.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From New York Post:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro challenged Elon Musk to a fight on national television after the Tesla tech mogul alleged that the country&#8217;s presidential election was fraudulent &#8212; with Musk later agreeing to a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Following the results of Venezuela&#8217;s presidential election, in which both Maduro and his opponent claimed victory, the Tesla CEO took to X to accuse the socialist leader of &#8220;major election fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maduro, leave! Venezuelans chose to end the communist dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro. The data announce a crushing victory of the opposition, and the world is waiting for you to recognize the defeat after years of socialism, misery, decadence and death,&#8221; Musk wrote in a second post.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s posts quickly caught the attention of Maduro himself, who called the billionaire a threat to Venezuela and, in a bizarre turn, challenged him to a fight on national television, the Anadolu Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Social media creates a virtual reality, and who controls the virtual reality? Our new archenemy, the famous Elon Musk,&#8221; Maduro said before adding, &#8220;Do you want to fight? Let&#8217;s do it. Elon Musk, I&#8217;m ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued: &#8220;I&#8217;m not afraid of you, Elon Musk. Let&#8217;s fight, wherever you want.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By Wednesday afternoon, as news of Maduro&#8217;s challenge against Musk spread online, the X CEO responded to a tweet about the confrontation, simply writing, &#8220;I accept.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keane, I. (2024, July 31). Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro challenges Elon Musk to fight on national television. <em>New York Post<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/31\/world-news\/venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro-challenges-elon-musk-to-fight\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little dated, but a change of pace&#8230; Nicol\u00e1s Maduro spoke on national TV, in Venezuela, &hellip; <a title=\"Nicol\u00e1s Maduro challenges Elon Musk to a fight, Musk accepts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159753\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicol\u00e1s Maduro challenges Elon Musk to a fight, Musk accepts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}