{"id":1394931,"date":"2022-03-22T18:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394931"},"modified":"2022-03-22T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T23:00:06","slug":"maduro-henchman-suggests-venezuela-launch-ukraine-style-invasion-of-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maduro-henchman-suggests-venezuela-launch-ukraine-style-invasion-of-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Maduro Henchman Suggests Venezuela Launch Ukraine-Style Invasion of Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaduro-henchman-suggests-venezuela-launch-ukraine-style-invasion-of-colombia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394931&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s second-in-command, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) leader Diosdado Cabello, <a href=\"https:\/\/dolartoday.com\/cabello-sugiere-operacion-similar-la-de-rusia-en-ucrania-en-colombia-se-debe-descocainizar-ver-que-queda\/\">mused<\/a> on Monday that his country could engage in a Ukraine-style invasion of Colombia to \u201cde-cocainize\u201d the country.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro has enthusiastically supported Russian leader Vladimir Putin\u2019s decision to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/02\/23\/venezuelas-maduro-rants-about-alleged-fascist-coup-in-ukraine-complete-backing-for-putin\/\">repeating<\/a> Putin\u2019s claims that efforts to topple the democratically elected government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were made to \u201cde-Nazify\u201d Ukraine. Maduro has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/03\/05\/caruzo-maduro-stands-with-putin-the-people-of-venezuela-stand-with-ukraine\/\">spread<\/a> misinformation online, sharing videos on social media of scenes from\u00a0<em>Servant of the People<\/em>, the comedy show Zelensky starred in before being president, and claiming them to be real images of Zelensky\u2019s political career.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Russian officials have not only addressed alleged Nazi organizations in Ukraine but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/03\/03\/russian-fm-sergey-lavrov-ukraines-zelensky-a-neo-nazi-president\/\">referred<\/a> to Zelensky himself as a \u201cneo-Nazi president.\u201d Zelensky has repeatedly refuted Putin\u2019s accusation of ties to Nazism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/24\/how-can-i-be-a-nazi-zelenskyys-direct-appeal-to-russians-before-ukraine-attack\/\">noting<\/a> that he is Jewish and lost family in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20224490\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/zelensky-urges-video-address-maximum-damage-upi.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, pictured in Kyiv, issued an address via Facebook calling on Ukraine\u2019s allies to increase their support during the Russian invasion. (Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Office\/ UPI)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russia is one of Maduro\u2019s closest financial backers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/07\/venezuela-china-and-russia-owed-debts-as-presidential-fight-rages.html\">offering<\/a> billions of dollars in loans and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/russia-says-military-aid-venezuela-will-not-be-used-attack-colombia-2022-02-08\/\">arming<\/a> his socialist regime with military aid.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20297909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/AP22080031747443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20297909 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/AP22080031747443-1024x684-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. (AP Photo\/Mstyslav Chernov)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In remarks during a televised socialist party meeting on Monday, Cabello <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PartidoPSUV\/status\/1505985203143122946\">applauded<\/a> Russia for \u201cdoing the entire world\u2019s work alone,\u201d suggesting that attacking Ukraine benefits the rest of the planet, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psuv.org.ve\/portada\/diosdado-cabello-rusia-ha-sido-vendida-grandes-medios-como-un-pais-agresor\/\">accused<\/a> international media of falsely \u201cselling [an image of] Russia as an aggressor, when in reality the aggrieved [party] is Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20274869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239291880-e1647713358681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20274869 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1239291880-e1647713358681-1024x769-1.jpg\" alt=\"Putin\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian President Vladimir Putin greets the audience as he attends a concert marking the eighth anniversary of Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow on March 18, 2022. (RAMIL SITDIKOV\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cRussia will have to do away with Nazism in the world twice,\u201d Cabello claimed, referring to the Soviet Union\u2019s participation in World War II and taking Russia\u2019s accusations against Zelensky at face value.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Cabello turned to Colombia, a neighboring country with a long history of illegal cocaine trafficking that Maduro has been accused of enabling. The U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/nicol-s-maduro-moros-and-14-current-and-former-venezuelan-officials-charged-narco-terrorism\">charged<\/a> Maduro himself in 2020 with \u201crunning, together with his top lieutenants, a narco-terrorism partnership\u201d with Colombian drug lords.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver there [Ukraine] they found themselves with Russia, which responded to them,\u201d Cabello said. \u201cThat is NATO, that is what they call the global order, but a new world order will arise from this, from what is happening in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not an expert on the matter, but the more time passes, it is worse for the Ukrainian Nazis because the de-Nazification will be from the root,\u201d he concluded. \u201cSomeone said, why not take the opportunity and de-cocainize Colombia to see what\u2019s left?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Diosdado Cabello sugiri\u00f3 una operaci\u00f3n en Colombia similar a la de Rusia en Ucrania: \u201cA ver qu\u00e9 queda\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UjR3cXfxXm\">https:\/\/t.co\/UjR3cXfxXm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IbdUnMilQt\">pic.twitter.com\/IbdUnMilQt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Monitoreamos (@monitoreamos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/monitoreamos\/status\/1505982568579145733?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Cabello made the remark flippantly, not elaborating on who the \u201csomeone\u201d suggesting what he appeared to describe as an invasion is or what \u201cde-cocainization\u201d would look like.<\/p>\n<p>Cabello\u2019s comments were particularly notable given that extensive evidence compiled over the past decade suggests that he is one of the Western Hemisphere\u2019s most prolific cocaine traffickers. In addition to being a longtime PSUV leader and Maduro henchman holding various titles since Maduro took over for late socialist dictator Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in 2013, Cabello has been credibly accused of engaging in multinational drug trafficking. Reports have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/02\/18\/venezuelas-former-national-assembly-head-did-business-with-hezbollah\/\">mounted<\/a> for years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/01\/28\/former-security-chief-accuses-venezuelas-second-in-command-of-leading-drug-ring\/\">claiming<\/a> Cabello is the head of the \u201cCartel de los Soles,\u201d an international cocaine trafficking organization run through the Venezuelan military. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2017\/07\/20\/marco-rubio-socialist-lawmaker-diosdado-cabello-the-pablo-escobar-of-venezuela\/\">referred<\/a> to Cabello as the \u201cPablo Escobar of Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Two of Maduro\u2019s nephews were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/07\/25\/venezuela-presidents-nephews-were-trafficking-farc-cocaine-into-new-york\/\">arrested<\/a> in 2016 on charges of trying to traffic cocaine into New York; the men allegedly told police that they cocaine in their position belonged to Cabello.<\/p>\n<p>Cabello <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/04\/27\/venezuelas-socialist-party-leader-loses-lawsuit-against-wall-street-journal-over-drug-report\/\">sued<\/a> the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> for defamation over the accusations in 2018 but lost the lawsuit on the grounds that he could not prove the elements of defamation \u2013 namely, that the accusations were false and that they were made maliciously.<\/p>\n<p>The government of Colombia, under current conservative President Iv\u00e1n Duque, has repeatedly condemned the Maduro regime and referred to it as a national security threat for Colombia. The Maduro regime has ties to arguably the deadliest terrorist organization in Colombian history, the communist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which Hugo Ch\u00e1vez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2014\/05\/21\/chavista-organization-hosting-50th-anniversary-party-in-caracas-for-farc-terror-group\/\">welcomed<\/a> to operate in Venezuela.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18677482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/wi\/ap\/09\/israel-colombia-colombia-president-ivan-duque-marquez-speaks-press-tel-aviv-israel-tuesday-nov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18677482 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/israel-colombia-colombia-president-ivan-duque-marquez-speaks-press-tel-aviv-israel-tuesday-nov-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Colombia\u2019s President Ivan Duque Marquez speaks to The Associated Press in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. (AP Photo\/Ariel Schalit)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Venezuelan dictatorship is one more link in the chain of transnational terrorism. Its corrupt structures are the handmaidens of drug cartels,\u201d Duque <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2019\/09\/25\/colombian-president-maduro-child-rapists\/\">told<\/a> the United Nations General Assembly in 2019. \u201cIts followers are adherents of a mafia and fuel the violence in Colombia. The dictatorship gives refuge to murderers and child rapists \u2013 and those who ignore these facts are, by their silence, accomplices of the dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colombia has also expressed concerns with Russia supplying Maduro with weapons the socialist Venezuelan regime could later use to attack Colombia; Moscow reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/russia-says-military-aid-venezuela-will-not-be-used-attack-colombia-2022-02-08\/\">asserted<\/a>\u00a0last month that any military aid to Maduro would not serve that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Duque expressed dismay this month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/03\/07\/reports-joe-biden-seeking-oil-deal-with-socialist-venezuela-russias-best-friend\/\">reports<\/a> surfaced that President Joe Biden may be seeking to purchase oil from Maduro to offset losses from sanctioning Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. Maduro confirmed during a nationally televised appearance that Biden had sent a delegation to Caracas for \u201cpositive\u201d discussions, but did not disclose the content of the talks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a topic that the United States will have to reflect about,\u201d Duque <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/03\/08\/colombian-president-ivan-duque-unhappy-with-joe-bidens-outreach-to-venezuela\/\">said<\/a> in early March. \u201cThe United States has had a position about this we have shared, which is to call things by their name. And that government is a dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1647946599108000&#038;usg=AOvVaw19U4Nmp2SjEx4vVmUN9RcO\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1647946599108000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1bgTt_eC_X6d1wJdF7_oqQ\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuelan dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro\u2019s second-in-command, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) leader Diosdado Cabello, mused on Monday that his country could engage in a Ukraine-style invasion of Colombia to \u201cde-cocainize\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}