Socialist Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro designated strongman and long-suspected drug lord Diosdado Cabello his minister of the interior on Tuesday to “bring peace” to the country.
Maduro also appointed Cabello his “vice president for citizen security, political, and peace.”
The designation puts Cabello in charge of the socialist regime’s repressive security and intelligence agencies, courts, and prisons used to silence anti-socialist dissent. Venezuela is experiencing a new wave of protests and other forms of resistance against the regime in response to Maduro hosting a sham election on July 28 that he claims to have “won.”
Cabello is widely considered one of the most powerful members of Venezuela’s socialist regime and stands accused by U.S. authorities of leading the Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles), an intercontinental cocaine trafficking…
