Elon Musk said in 2020 that he would launch a political coup against anyone he wanted

Economic interests dictate the billionaire’s involvement in international political issues

Campaigning against Alexandre de Moraes and the Brazilian judiciary on X (formerly Twitter), billionaire Elon Musk has already boasted of carrying out political coups around the world. In 2020 he posted a warning on social media: “We will hit whoever we want. Face it.”

The message was published in the context of a political crisis in Bolivia. Shortly before, left-wing president Evo Morales had resigned from office. Musk wrote the tweet in response to an Internet user who accused the US government of staging a coup in Bolivia so that Musk could make a deal and secure the country’s production of lithium for his companies, a widely used in the production of batteries in various electronic devices. current cars and also electric cars from Tesla, the billionaire’s company.

Tesla’s interests would also be linked to the current political campaign against Brazil. This year, representatives of BYD, the Chinese electric car giant, presented to President Luís Inácio Lula da Silva a plan to invest R$3 billion in the Camaçari complex, which will have an initial capacity to produce 150,000 cars per year and it will be the company’s first car factory outside Asia. This way BYD would dominate the Brazilian market, which Musk hoped to conquer with the possible support of Bolsonaro.

Source: Terra

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