Venezuela’s Cabello orders Rubio’s assassination
Newsweek reports that an assassination order was issued by former Venezuelan military chief, Diosdado Cabello, to deal with outspoken US Senator Marco Rubio;
There has been no comment from Rubio on the threat, nor suggestions as to why Rubio was targeted. However, the senator has been an outspoken voice from within the U.S. on Venezuela, and in particular on Cabello, whom Rubio has referred to as “the Pablo Escobar of Venezuela,” while Cabello, in turn, has referred to Rubio as “Narco Rubio.”
From the Miami Herald;
The death threat was outlined in a memo to several law enforcement agencies disseminated last month by the Department of Homeland Security. The memo, designated “law enforcement sensitive” but not classified, was obtained by the Miami Herald.
The memo revealed an “order to have Senator Rubio assassinated,” though it also warned that “no specific information regarding an assassination plot against Senator Rubio has been garnered thus far” and that the U.S. had not been able to verify the threat. That Cabello has been a vocal Rubio critic in Venezuelan media was also noted, a sign federal authorities are well aware of the political bluster complicating the situation.
According to the Herald, Cabello might have tried to contract certain Mexican assets to complete the order. The Herald also reported that Rubio’s personal security detail has been beefed up recently.
Category: Foreign Policy
What is it with these idiots throwing rocks at a hornets nest?
Cabello sounds like a perfect candidate for U.S. Drone Strike University.
“Narco Rubio”
Ha! That is actually pretty good. He should use that instead of Lil Marco.
It does have a nice ring to it.
Gee, can’t they just stick to assassinating their own politicians?
Cabello is a Venezuelan government official. Would that not make this an act of war?
Was.
I can’t wait for the pictures of the former leaders of Venezuela strung up by their heels.
Much like the way Mussolini and his wife were done at the end of WWII.
Bingo.
Sic semper tyrannis.
……and Nicolai Cschoesque (sp?) and his wife, dragged off and dispatched with extreme predgidice.
Some folks holding the whips in Caracas believe that the People will again rally to them to “Oust the Gringo”. Thus, they are doing everything in their power to draw us into the fracas. They win, they see themselves as heros to a grateful (and obedient) People. They lose, and they rely on the excessively “nice” Gringos to negotiate a safe-passage exit to a luxurious exile someplace far from the ungrateful and angry People, safety guaranteed by the Gringos that they provoked in the first place.
Don’t invade, if it gets to that necessity of action. Chuck B-2 delivered JDAMs or drone-delivered-Hellfire through the office windows of key dickheads. Let the locals liberate themselves from the decapitated Socialist Utopia remaining. Congratulate the brave free people on their new Liberty, and ask that they guard it fiercely.
I’m starting to feel really disappointed by all these extremist types who start identifying people, by name, they want to kill/have murdered.
I’ve done my time, I did my trips to the sandbox. Why haven’t I been put on a list or targeted by name by any of these groups?
It is really beginning to bum me out.
IKR?!?
What does a pork eating, beer swilling, freedom loving, bleeding red, white and f*cking blue American have to do to get on the radar?
mmmm, Bacon.
Easy, just have intercourse with the wrong muslims goat! 😉
Just start poking into the mysterious disappearance of Elaine Ricci, and the Vice President of a proud woman owned business will dispatch an inept death squad to your hideout to kill you, too. Unfortunately, they will kill the wrong person, but they will still count it as a victory.
Wait’ll SecDef Chaos gets ahold of this…Adios, Pendejo
I hear Rubio gulping bottled water from here. Hit squads will follow the trail of sweat.
I am a bit too preoccupied with paying my health care plan, that has almost tripled in 4 years, to offer poor Narco any assistance.
Dave,
Speaking of hit squads, how goes it with that ‘assassin’ who said that he was headed your way a while back?
Any sign yet of his menacing presence, or is he still bogged down at the local Waffle House or all-you-can-eat buffet?
Apparently the only thing Sniper about Lawton is the fake tattoo on his fat ass.
Who knows, maybe he found Jesus. He has been locked up in the VA psyc ward more than once. I figure he should come after me and leave decent folks alone.
If he ever shows up and faces the Wrath of the Soviet, be sure to take pictures!
Jesus? There are three Jesuses living down the street from me. Do you want their addresses for your psycho hitman?
No PH…those are Haysoos’
Now I’m completely confused.
Hmm. Seems to me our IC folks should have known about this long before it beecame public.
I wonder if perhaps this is why the POTUS made the statement the other day that “military action wasn’t ruled out”. Seems to me that the last time a foreign nation seriously threatened to off a senior US govt official, some of that nation’s defense facilities ended up as rubble shortly afterwards.