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View all search resultsIt's a bird! It's a plane! It's Venezuela's own superhero
Super-Bigote is Spanish for Super-Mustache, an allusion to the famous bushy lip growth the cartoon character shares with Maduro, and from where he draws the power that makes him "indestructible."
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In this file photo taken on December 26, 2022, a superhero toy known as “Super Mustache“, inspired in Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is pictured in a house in Catia neighbourhood in Caracas. Ten years after the death in power (1999-2013) of his much more popular predecessor Hugo Chavez, President Nicolas Maduro has eagerly embraced propaganda and personality cult as a means of endearing him to the Venezuelan people. Venezuela has its very own caped superhero. He wears a red construction helmet and his weapon is his iron fist. Called “Super-Bigote,“ he is created in the image of Maduro.
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enezuela has its very own caped superhero. He wears a red construction helmet and his weapon is his iron fist. Called "Super-Bigote," he is created in the image of President Nicolas Maduro.
Super-Bigote is Spanish for Super-Mustache, an allusion to the famous bushy lip growth the cartoon character shares with Maduro, and from where he draws the power that makes him "indestructible."
Like Clark Kent turns into Superman, Maduro becomes Super-Bigote on national TV and the internet to bravely defend Venezuela against its enemies -- a recurring rival is a masked, blonde antihero in the White House.
According to a source in the know, who is not allowed to speak to the media, Super-Bigote was commissioned by Maduro's entourage, in 2021.
The brief was to create a hero "at war with imperialism," the source told AFP.
Maduro had referred to himself as Super-Bigote in the past, with one video showing him declaring ironically: "I am not Superman. I am Super-Bigote. Look! A government falls," as he moves his mustache from side to side.
Ten years after the death of his much more popular predecessor Hugo Chavez, Maduro has eagerly embraced propaganda and personality cult as a means of endearing himself to the Venezuelan people.
