W.H. In ‘Discussions’ With Venezuelan Interior Minister Months Before Raid
Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello was key to a ‘smooth’ regime change
(ZH) – The White House was conducting back-channel communications with Venezuela’s hardline interior minister Diosdado Cabello months before the US operation to seize President Nicolas Maduro, and has been in communication with him since then, according to Reuters, citing multiple government officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Cabello, who was Maduro’s right hand and seen as Venezuela’s second most powerful figure (and close aide of the late former President Hugo Chavez), was key to a ‘smooth’ regime change – as the 62-year-old had (and has) the power to turn the country’s security services or militant ruling-party supporters he oversees to target the country’s opposition. That security apparatus he controls has remained largely intact since the Jan. 3 US raid.
Cabello is named in the same U.S. drug-trafficking indictment that the Trump administration used as justification to arrest Maduro, but was not taken as part of the operation.
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