At the meeting, the Minister of Justice, Oscar Silvera explained that in the messaging application Whatsapp channels were enabled to receive queries from citizens.
The alternatives like Telegram and Signal also operate heavily in the USA so they’d also be a no-go. They must have some special deal since whatsapp is used a lot even on an official capacity by Latin American governments and it’d make international communications harder (and create demand for a LatAm-based alternative).
Interesting. They use whatsapp there too.
Im suprised it works there with Facebook being US based
The alternatives like Telegram and Signal also operate heavily in the USA so they’d also be a no-go. They must have some special deal since whatsapp is used a lot even on an official capacity by Latin American governments and it’d make international communications harder (and create demand for a LatAm-based alternative).
Signal is US based so has the same issue