Venezuela: Diosdado Cabello, From the Lieutenant of Chavez to the Most Dreaded Figure of Power

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The interim president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, replaced last Thursday all the members of the military high command, the day after the dismissal of the Minister of Defence. A sparing purging Diosdado Cabello who embodies a radical figure and a symbol of the authoritarian drifts of the regime. Since the death of Hugo Chavez, the current Minister of the Interior and Justice has established himself as the persistent shadow behind the throne of…