The Venezuelans are close associates of Diosdado Cabello Rondón. miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo…
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Cabello was initially left off the sanctions list in 2017 in the hopes it would sow doubts about his loyalty to the Maduro regime.
The goal was to fuel speculation in VZ that Cabello was working with the U.S. gov’t.