For months, Venezuelans have been reading reports that one
of the most powerful figures in their autocratic and virulently anti-American
government, National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello, is a principal target
of a U.S. criminal investigation into a Caracas-based drug trafficking cartel.
So imagine their surprise when media linked to Cabello began displaying a
photograph of the alleged kingpin meeting with a smiling senior State
Department official in Haiti this month. Why would Thomas Shannon, a senior
counselor to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, have met and then posed for
photographs on June 13 with Cabello, who according to numerous news reports has
been targeted by prosecutors in New York and Miami for allegedly leading a
cartel that has shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States? More….
Monday, June 22, 2015
Easing Venezuela’s crash
For months, Venezuelans have been reading reports that one
of the most powerful figures in their autocratic and virulently anti-American
government, National Assembly president Diosdado Cabello, is a principal target
of a U.S. criminal investigation into a Caracas-based drug trafficking cartel.
So imagine their surprise when media linked to Cabello began displaying a
photograph of the alleged kingpin meeting with a smiling senior State
Department official in Haiti this month. Why would Thomas Shannon, a senior
counselor to Secretary of State John F. Kerry, have met and then posed for
photographs on June 13 with Cabello, who according to numerous news reports has
been targeted by prosecutors in New York and Miami for allegedly leading a
cartel that has shipped hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States? More….
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