It is false that the executive vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, has announced the prohibition of the dollar in Venezuela, Although they assure Internet users that disseminate digitally altered images, from a speech that the official pronounced in 2024.
Users on social networks such as Facebook and X share a video of Tiktok – already eliminated – in which Delcy Rodríguez supposedly appears informing about the restriction of the use of this currency and sorrows for those who fail to comply with the measure.
«As of today the dollar in Venezuela is flatly prohibited. To whom he meets his hands, he will imprison twenty years. Outside imperialism«, It is heard to say to Rodríguez in the viral recording.
The video also includes a sequence of images generated with artificial intelligence and the voice of a narrator who states: “According to her, the dollar is a weapon of economic war used by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to destroy Venezuelan sovereignty.”
FACTS: It is an old video that was digitally altered, as confirmed by specialized tools and an inverse search of images on the Internet, which allows to find the authentic content. In this, the official is not heard of this measure, of which there are no traces in the official channels of the Venezuelan Executive.
A video manipulated with AI
To begin, a search on Google Lens and an advanced track track lead to the original material, a video published in 2024 by the YouTube channel ‘The 19 Digital’.
The recording – in which Rodríguez carries the same clothing as in the piece that circulates— corresponds to a speech delivered on November 5, 2024during the ‘Antifascist World Parliamentary Forum’.
In this speech, politics spoke about a “hegemony of the dollar” that, he said, “has allowed criminal economic blockages to impose themselves automatically.” Nevertheless, He did not mention at any time an alleged prohibition of the US currency in Venezuela.
A comparison of both videos proves that the viralized material is the product of an ultrafalso or ‘Deepfake’, a technique of audio and video cloning by artificial intelligence (AI) that allows you to modify both the face and voice of a person in a recording.
In the altered sequence, Rodríguez’s voice listens robotics and lacks an accent, while at some moments his mouth deforms and has an unnatural movement, a typical error in the ‘Deepfakes’.
In addition, an analysis with the application of artificial intelligence Iveres – a project co -directed by RTVE and the Autonomous University of Barcelona to detect false content -, yields 91, % likely that the content that has been artificially manipulated.
No announcement traces
A consultation in the official channels of the Venezuelan Executive did not yield results or references to an alleged restriction and criminalization due to the use of the dollar in the country.
No reliable means, including the EFE agency, has reported anything about it.
The video with the alleged announcement of the dollar prohibition in Venezuela spreads in a context in which the Bolívar has experienced a strong fall in front of that currency.
This currency fell in April 20% against the US dollar, when the rate arrived at 87.56 bolivars last Wednesday in the official market, the largest monthly devaluation that records the national currency so far this year. At the end of the same month, the parallel rate, used mainly in the informal sector of the economy, exceeded 108 bolivars, Efe reported.
Although the bolivar is the official currency in the country, The American currency is the main reference to establish the prices of articles, services and procedures.
In conclusion, it is false that the executive vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, appears in a video announcing the prohibition of the use of the dollar in the country and its consequent criminalization. The images are manipulated with AI and there are no traces of the supposed extent in official channels or in the media.
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