Diosdado Cabello

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Diosdado Cabello Rondón (born April 15, 1963 in El Furrial , Monagas ) is a Venezuelan politician , military and engineer. On April 13, 2002 he was President of Venezuela for one day during the kidnapping of Hugo Chávez . He is considered to be one of the most corrupt politicians in Venezuela and after the death of Chávez as “the secret number one of Chavism ”. In June 2018 he became chairman of the “Constituent Assembly” set up unconstitutionally by President Maduro to disempower Parliament.

Life

Diosdado Cabello graduated from the Venezuelan Military Academy ( Academia Militar de Venezuela ) and the Polytechnic University Institute of the Army. On February 4, 1992, he participated in the failed coup attempt by the left-wing national officer group around Hugo Chávez against President Carlos Andrés Pérez . After Chavez was released from prison, Cabello supported his election campaign and played a key role in the leadership of the Movimiento V República (Movement for the Fifth Republic). In 2002 he replaced Adina Bastidas as Vice President, which was criticized by the opposition as the "militarization of the cabinet" by Chávez. During the coup on April 11, 2002, Cabello went into hiding because power in the country was in the hands of Pedro Carmona Estanga . It was only when he resigned after two turbulent days that Cabello became interim president, until Chavez was liberated by special army units the next day.

From 2002 to 2010 he was minister several times:

  • Minister of the Presidential Office (2002)
  • Interior and Justice Minister (2002-2003)
  • Minister for Infrastructure (2003-2004)
  • Minister for Public Works and Housing (2009-2010)

In between, from 2004 to 2008, he was governor of the state of Miranda . In the 2004 elections, Cabello won 52% of the vote against the Christian Democratic incumbent Enrique Mendoza , who had ruled Miranda since 1995 and received 48% of the vote. In the gubernatorial elections in 2008 he was defeated by Henrique Capriles from the Primero Justicia party , which belongs to the opposition to Chavez.

Since 2007, Cabello has been considered one of the main leaders of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which Hugo Chavez supports. He has been deputy party chairman since 2008. From January 2010 to January 2016 he was President of Parliament . In this office he disregarded all customs and laws: he did not allow members of the opposition to speak in plenary, froze their diets and withdrew their parliamentary immunity .

Cabello's long career under Chavez is noteworthy in that Chavez used to quickly turn fellow campaigners who could be dangerous to him to unimportant posts. It was therefore surprising for many Venezuelans that Hugo Chávez, before his cancer operation in December 2012, called on his supporters to vote for Vice President Nicolás Maduro if he - Chávez - could no longer exercise his office, i.e. that he had not designated Cabello . Regardless of this, Maduro and Cabello waged a bitter power struggle over Chavez's successor. Chavez's death was announced on March 5, 2013.

Cabello is married and has four children. He provides his family with highly paid and influential positions:

  • His brother José David Cabello is also a Chavista functionary. He headed the Servicio Nacional Integrado de Administración Aduanera y Tributaria (SENIAT), the authority for customs and taxes, and has been Minister of Industry since 2013.
  • Cabello's wife Marlenys Contreras has been Minister of Tourism since 2015.
  • His sister Glenna was an advisor to the Venezuelan Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

This earned him the charge of nepotism .

Even in the crisis in January 2019, Cabello was considered number two in Chavismus or Maduro's right-hand man. He is considered the possible commander of 100,000 armed paramilitaries, so-called colectivos , who intimidate the population. Since 2018, Switzerland has denied him entry due to human rights violations, and his assets have been frozen there.

Threats against members of the opposition in the television program "Con el Mazo Dando"

Cabello has his own weekly show on the state television channel VTV: Con el Mazo Dando (hammer blows). In this program, Cabello gives the government's views on many political issues and strongly criticizes the opposition. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has expressed concern about how this program seeks to intimidate people who have contacted the Commission. Some Venezuelan commentators compared the reproduction of recordings of private conversations of opposition members, as is customary in this program, with the practices of the GDR , as shown in the film The Lives of Others .

Amnesty International condemned the Cabello "smear campaigns" against Venezuelan human rights defenders Rafael Uzcátegui and Carlos Correa. He had - apparently illegally - gained access to their private correspondence and through a corresponding appeal in his broadcast ensured that Uzcátegui and Correa were harassed by Cabello's supporters when they returned from a testimony before the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights at the Caracas airport were threatened.

Scandals

Oppositionists have filed several lawsuits against Cabello. He is accused of having brought numerous profitable properties and several companies under his control, including the large company EVEBA in Cumaná . In December 2008, documents were submitted to the Anti-Corruption Control Commission about the “irregular treatment” of US $ 230 million.

Even within the left movements there have long been voices against Diosdado Cabello. In May 2015, it became known that US authorities had suspected Cabello of cocaine trafficking and money laundering .

See also: Corruption in Venezuela , Diosdado Cabello paragraph

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonio Maria Delgado: Demanda afirma que Diosdado Cabello recibió sobornos por $ 50 million . In: El Nuevo Herald , March 28, 2014 (Spanish), accessed January 2, 2017.
  2. ↑ Tjerk Brühwiller: Maduro hostages . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 1, 2016, p. 7.
  3. ↑ NZZ, June 21, 2018, page 2
  4. ^ A b Daniel Lansberg-Rodríguez: The Frank Underwood of Venezuela . In: The Atlantic , March 6, 2014 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Chavez determines his successor , sueddeutsche.de, December 9, 2012.
  6. ↑ Camilo Jiménez: Post-Chavismo strives for power. , zeit.de, January 30, 2013.
  7. ↑ United Nations - Protocol and Liaison Service (ed.): Permanent Missions to the United Nations , Edition 300 (March 2010), United Nations, New York 2010, ISBN 978-92-1-054366-8 , p. 292.
  8. ↑ Sandra Weiss: Chávez's shadow man, the godfather of Venezuela , zeit.de, January 9, 2013.
  9. ↑ Diosdado Cabello tilda de “grandes irresponsables” a quienes dirigen la UE , El Nuevo Herald, January 31, 2019
  10. ↑ Diosdado Cabello on RFI: "Nicolás Maduro will not give up" , Radio France International, January 31, 2019
  11. ↑ Venezuela: Waiting for Escalation , Telepolis , April 8, 2019
  12. ↑ The terror of the «Colectivos» - this is how Maduros motorcycle gangs hunt opponents of the regime , Watson , January 31, 2019
  13. ^ State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO: Measures against Venezuela. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Con el Mazo Dando , website of the series (Spanish), accessed on January 2, 2017.
  15. ↑ Press release of the Organization of American States : IACHR Expresses Alarm over Intimidation in Venezuela directed against People Who Come before the Inter-American Human Rights System , March 20, 2015, accessed on January 2, 2017.
  16. ↑ El Nacional : Los cristales rotos de Diosdado ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 24, 2016 (Spanish), accessed January 2, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.el-nacional.com
  17. ↑ Amnesty International: Defenders at risk following breach of privacy report on TV program , call for "Urgent action" of June 4, 2015.
  18. ↑ José Gregorio Martínez: Más de 43 propiedades constituían el negocio inmobiliario de Cabello . In: La Verdad (Maracaibo), August 24, 2013 (Spanish), accessed January 2, 2017.
  19. ↑ Los intocables ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , “The Untouchables”: Incidents of Corruption in the Venezuelan Government, May 18, 2011 (Spanish), accessed on January 2, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.talcualdigital.com
  20. ↑ Patrick Larsen: Balance sheet of PSUV congress , marxist.com, March 11, 2008, accessed on January 2, 2017.
  21. ↑ Gobernador Cabello exhortó a Tascón a presentar pruebas sobre denunciations. Aporrea.org, February 18, 2008 (Spanish), accessed January 2, 2017.
  22. ↑ José de Córdoba, Juan Forero: Venezuelan officials suspected of turning the country into global cocaine hub . In: The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2015, accessed January 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Cabello, Diosdado
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cabello Rondón, Diosdado (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venezuelan politician, military and engineer, former governor of Miranda State
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH El Furrial , Monagas