Diosdado Cabello is named in the same US drug-trafficking indictment that the Trump administration used as justification to arrest Maduro, but was not taken as part of the operation.
Venezuelan interior minister — a Nicolas Maduro loyalist — was in talks with US months before raid: report
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January 17, 2026
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