⚔️ War & Conflict Mar 24, 2026 · Ryan Simons

Trump Is Getting His Way in Caracas — But It’s Complicated

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Trump Is Getting His Way in Caracas — But It’s Complicated
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In 2017, Marco Rubio, then Florida’s junior senator, was assigned a Capitol Police security detail because the U.S. received unverified but alarming intelligence that Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s feared chief enforcer was sending a hit man to assassinate him. Today, in an epic irony, Rubio, now Secretary of State, and his boss, President Donald Trump, have turned to that same enforcer – Diosdado Cabello, whose official title is Minister of Interior, Justice, and Peace – to calm the nat

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