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  • Thursday, July 17th 2025 - 10:10 UTC

    Cabello foresees Machado leaving Venezuela shortly

    Machado and Guaidó are one and the same, Cabello claimed

    Venezuela's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello warned on Wednesday in his TV show that María Corina Machado, also known as La Sayo (or La Sayona), would be departing for the United States shortly, citing fears for her life, particularly given the impending deadline granted to her to avoid causing unrest and destabilization before the July 27 elections.

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  • Wednesday, July 2nd 2025 - 10:20 UTC

    Cabello outlines scope of antiterrorist operations

    Cabello linked these terrorist activities to opposition leader María Corina Machado

    Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello on Tuesday reported on new alleged terrorist plots by the “far right” in collusion with drug traffickers and foreign agents. He asserted that this was a single, coordinated conspiracy, which had been thwarted through arrests across several states, including judges, mayors, and police officers.

  • Thursday, June 5th 2025 - 10:08 UTC

    Venezuela's gov't announces arrest of alleged mercenary from T&T

    Cabello also mentioned paramilitary arrangements in Ecuador

    Venezuelan authorities have captured Guis Kendell Jerome, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago, as part of an ongoing investigation into paramilitary groups allegedly entering the country to incite violence. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello stated that mercenaries from Trinidad and Tobago, alongside Colombian paramilitary groups, are involved in these movements.

  • Friday, May 23rd 2025 - 20:42 UTC

    Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Pablo Guanipa arrested ahead of Sunday elections

    A lawyer and former member of the Parliament, Guanipa has long been a prominent voice within the Venezuelan opposition. In recent months, he had frequently appeared alongside Machado at rallies

    Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Pablo Guanipa, a close ally of presidential candidate María Corina Machado, was arrested by government forces on Friday, just two days before the country’s regional and legislative elections.

  • Thursday, May 22nd 2025 - 18:45 UTC

    Argentine national among alleged conspirators arrested in Venezuela

    “We are deployed all over Venezuela,” Cabello warned

    Nationals of Argentina, Bulgaria, and Spain have been arrested in Venezuela. They were accused of plotting to “sabotage, by violent means,” the country ahead of the May 25 regional and legislative elections. According to Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, the group was intercepted at sea with 200 kilos of gunpowder, allegedly part of a conspiracy linked to fugitive former commissioner Iván Simonovis and opposition leader María Corina Machado.

  • Tuesday, May 20th 2025 - 10:21 UTC

    Venezuelan gov't arrests 38 suspected terrorists

    Cabello ordered all flights from Colombia suspended, citing the terrorists were entering as tourists

    Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced Monday the arrest of 38 suspects, including 17 foreigners, for planning to sabotage regional elections with explosive attacks targeting embassies, hospitals, police stations, and public figures from both the ruling Chavismo and opposition.

  • Saturday, March 22nd 2025 - 11:11 UTC

    Venezuela is bluffing about Essequibo elections, Guyana's TNC argues

    Venezuela's threat is handled by Georgetown at the highest level on a daily basis, Jagdeo said

    Guyana's National Toshaos’ Council (NTC), representing the country's Indigenous Peoples, has rejected Venezuela's claims of holding elections in the disputed Essequibo region on May 25, 2025, as announced by the Bolivarian regime's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.

  • Tuesday, December 17th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

    Caracas confirms arresting Argentine Gendarmería NCO

    “It is not that [Gallo's] mission has been aborted. We have given him a hard blow thanks to the State security agencies,” Cabello underlined

    Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello Monday confirmed that Argentine Border Guard (Gendarmería Nacional) First Corporal Nahuel Gallo had been arrested by the Chavista regime because “he came to fulfill a mission.” Cabello added that Gallo's social media activity showed a lifestyle unfitting his salary, which raised doubts about his ultimate intentions.

  • Tuesday, September 24th 2024 - 10:10 UTC

    Buenos Aires court orders arrest of Maduro, Cabello, and other Chavista leaders

    Interpol will now have to decide whether to issue a red alert against the Bolivarian leader

    An Argentine court ordered Monday the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for their systematic plan to detain, kidnap, and torture people, which escalated after the controversial July 28 elections which the incumbent leader claims to have won despite producing no tangible evidence attesting to that. The measure also reaches over 30 Chavista leaders.

  • Tuesday, September 17th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

    EU monitoring arrest in Venezuela of two Spaniards and one Czech national

    Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello announced on nationwide TV this weekend saying the suspects belonged to a mission arranged by the CIA to overthrow the Bolivarian government

    The arrest by the Venezuelan regime of President Nicolás Maduro of two Spanish and one Czech national accused of planning alongside three US citizens to kill the head of state sparked a reaction from the European Union Monday, which condemned these events and said it was monitoring the case closely.

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