SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made significant changes to his cabinet on Tuesday, after having committed electoral fraud and having declared himself the winner of the July 28 elections. In one of his moves, he appointed the repressive president as new Interior Minister. Diosdado Cabelloconsidered by many to be the “strong man” of the Chavista regime.
The changes The new posts announced by dictator Maduro include heading the ministries of Oil and Finance and the state oil company PDVSA. Anabel Pereira is the new Finance Minister, while Hector Obregon is the new president of PDVSA, replacing Pedro Tellechea, who will head the Ministry of Industry, Maduro said at the meeting. state television.
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Vice President Delcy Rodriguez will remain in office, but will add the oil ministry to her duties, Maduro added.
Diosdado Cabello has been given more power: the first vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) will be in charge of the Ministry of Popular Power for Internal Relations, Justice and Peace.
“If there is someone who likes to be with the people and walk through the neighborhoods, it is Diosdado Cabello,” said the governor.
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“Thank you for your trust (…) The Bolivarian revolution has the necessary personnel for the various responsibilities. When the clarion call of the country calls, we are there ready, always, in the path of Commander Chavez,” responded Cabello, who also received the appointment as Vice President of the Sovereignty, Politics, Security and Peace sector.
Yván Gil and Vladimir Padrino will remain in their respective positions as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Defense, respectively, the dictator said.
The “strong man” of Chavismo
As the media recalled InfobaeOn July 30, Cabello threatened opposition members including Edmundo González Urrutia and María Corina Machado, after both rejected the victory granted by the CNE to Maduro.
Diosdado Cabello has been accused of links to drug trafficking and of being an active part of the so-called Cartel de los Soles.
He is also a man close to Castroism, as demonstrated by his visits to Cuba, where he met with Díaz-Canel and Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the PCC.
The Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuelaan agency created by the United Nations to establish responsibilities in the Venezuelan humanitarian crisis, alleged that Cabello would also be in charge of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN), one of the iron fists of the regime to control and repress the internal opposition and all types of dissent.
In Venezuela it is considered that since the SEBIN has been consolidated as an organization that does not respond to the natural chain of command, its director, the General in Chief (GJ) Gustavo Gonzalez Lopez He acts as a subordinate of Diosdado Cabello, who, apparently, already has total control over the institution.
