Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been portrayed as a superhero Super mustache ("SuerBigot") in the cartoon, which met with divided reactions around the world.

The muscular cartoon superhero divided the public. Maduro supporters are delighted, while those who oppose the president ridicule the move. The Maduro-like superhero is presented as indestructible, he has the superpower "iron left fist" to protect his socialist homeland from a villain who looks very much like Donald Trump.

The cartoon is shown on state television.

"It's fantastic! "Do not miss it!" Tweeted Deputy Commerce Minister Luis Villegas Ramirez after a new episode in which "Super Mustache" tries to send Cuban, Russian and Chinese coronavirus vaccines to Venezuelans - just to block delivery with the help of Nepri of Maduro, reports the Guardian.

"We will finally destroy them." They will suffer. They will cry. "They will be the global epicenter of the pandemic," he said.Super Mustache to save the job.

SuperMoustache! Sounds like a job for Venezuela's socialist superhero https://t.co/RNbA6aqPZB

- Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) January 19, 2022

Nobody got hooked on "Super mustache", Boasted on Twitter the state television VTV.

Maduro's dissidents have sharply criticized the series, with experts condemning it as what some have called an attempt to build a cult of personality - or even an attempt to control the Goebbels-style mind.

Others wondered why the supposedly almighty superhero failed to protect his country from a humanitarian catastrophe. Julio Borges, a prominent opposition figure, has suggested that "Venezuela's Super Destroyer" would be a more appropriate name for the cartoon character.

"Maduro means misery and corruption," Borges wrote on Twitter next to a photo of Venezuelans looking for food.

Guillermo Zubilaga, a Venezuelan expert on the so-called "Council of America", said there was logic in the seemingly frivolous cartoon.

He believes that the spin doctors hope that "Supermustaki" will emphasize the invincibility of the politician who, despite all the alleged obstructions, still wins in the relentless campaign of the USA that wants to overthrow him.

"His superpower remains in power," Zubilaga said, citing critical support from China and Russia, whose deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, last week refused to rule out sending troops to Venezuela if tensions with the United States continue to rise. .

"The message they are trying to convey is that they have complete control," he added.

Maduro is not the first authoritarian leader to be portrayed as a superhero in his country.

In 2016, Chinese propagandists made a cartoon of their leader Xi Jinping, in which the head of the Communist Party eliminated "corrupt officials" in the Chinese government.

A year later, Moscow hosted an art exhibition called "Super Putin" with sculptures and paintings celebrating Russian President Vladimir Putin. One showed Putin in a tight Superman costume with the initials SP written on his chest

Maduro's predecessor, Hugo Chavez received the posthumous honor from the black film, in which Latin American revolutionaries such as Che Guevara and Jose Felix Ribas welcomed him to paradise.

Zubilaga believes that the propaganda representatives imagined the "Super Mustache" as a distraction of the citizens from the economic collapse of Venezuela.

It's so ridiculous to make people talk. It takes you away from the reality of 6 million people going abroad with malnutrition and 250 political prisoners. I think it's effective. I would not reject it. "When you repeat it's so much… people start believing it," said the Venezuelan expert.