Diosdado Cabello, a former aide to Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chavez, today juggles jobs as a captain in the military and member of the national assembly while simultaneously running the Cartel of the Suns, the connective tissue between Colombian drug producers and the Venezuelan regime.
After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, Gov. José Gregorio ‘El Gato’ Briceño told Hugo Chavez of his brush with bloodshed, adding: ‘I have no doubt that it was ordered by Diosdado.’
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