Delcy Rodríguez qualified as “malicious information” who seeks “the division of the country’s “high political command” a piece of news according to which Diosdado Hairthe historic number two of the maturenesshad maintained contact with Washington before the military operation of January 3. The Miraflores Palace denied “categorically” the version released by Reuters about “alleged secret conspiratorial conversations” that cast doubt “revolutionary integrity” of the Minister of the Interior and Justice and the main authority of the United Socialist Party (PSUV). Cabello himself spoke on Monday afternoon to refer to the “media war” that still seeks to “undermine” confidence in front-line leaders. He asked the followers to have “strength” to avoid doubts and setbacks. He also recalled that this is not the first time they have been accused of “falsehoods.”
The minister also assured that the South American country is “at peace.” The “only regrettable event” was precisely the action of the US special forces command more than two weeks ago that led to the “kidnapping” of Nicolás Maduro. The president is imprisoned in New York, but in Venezuela, noted the person responsible for the repressive apparatus. Only the “extremists” claimed to “be happy” about the bombing that caused more than 100 deaths and, according to the Government, more than 400 homes affected. For the rest, “the country is calm, classes started without problems; we are moving forward, we seized almost seven tons of drugs, we have not stopped at all.”
A personal power factor
Cabello, 62 years old, He has always been a leader with his own game since he was relegated from leadership after the death of Hugo Chavezin 2013. That personal way of exercising power never collided with Maduro or the general Vladimir Padrino López. For years it has been target of US sanctions. The Department of Justice considered him part of the “Cartel of the Solos”, the fanciful organization that Maduro headed until January 3. His head came to have a high price: 25 million dollars. After the operation, it was officially recognized that this criminal faction had never existed as such. , a surname that distributes its influence in the Executive and Legislative, with the presence of Jorge, the brother of the “president in charge” at the head of the National Assembly.
The reality according to the minister
It is up to him, as the person responsible for security, to convey the idea that the headless madurismo maintains the political course set by its leadership. Cabello repeats it imperturbably, as if Donald Trump did not talk about his controversial plans for Venezuela and “to transmit them privately. The minister insists: “the only thing that didn’t go well for them is that the revolution continues to govern, “We are going to continue governing, working, a party deployed in the streets, the leadership showing its face.”
The Government has decided to put its machinery in motion for January 23, the day that commemorates the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez, in 1958, with a massive mobilization that will serve in turn to demand the release of Maduro and his wife Cilia Floreswho, the minister maintained, are “prisoners of war” in North American territory. “They are not going to impose evil in Venezuela, they have no chance.”
For Cabello, both the new oil association between the state-owned PDVSA and the United States as well as the release process are not part of the roadmap designed by the White House and, in particular, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubiosino measures planned in advance by Maduro himself. While the controversy remains with human rights organizations over the number of released opponents – the Government speaks of 406 and the NGOs of approximately half – the former Army captain who revolted with Chávez in 1992, maintained that the “national reconciliation” process had begun in December, before the attack, and was a “unilateral gesture” that cannot be attributed to what happened afterwards. It has been “a decision that President Nicolás Maduro made in December and has been continued.”
The man who controls the police and services is not unaware of the possibility of new dangers. In this new situation, “We have to help each other and take care of each other.” Cabello no longer talks about the militias or the warning that Venezuela would become a new Vietnam. The “aggressions” will henceforth be confronted “on the front of diplomacy” because “we are not afraid to sit with whoever we have to sit with, protecting our people, to doubt is treason.”
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