{"id":2185,"date":"2026-06-29T20:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:16:06","slug":"venezuela-quake-rescue-maduro-needs-a-bunkmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interstatelogisticshubs.com\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela quake rescue: Maduro needs a bunkmate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As ordinary Venezuelans dig their neighbors out of their monster two-earthquake rubble with their hands, the Venezuelan government is doing all it can to sit on its hands, loot the victims, obstruct\u00a0the\u00a0rescue teams, harass the\u00a0aid givers, block\u00a0the reporters, and hide\u00a0the body count.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more Europe\u2019s Boiling Frogs<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s a foul picture, but one incident stands out:<\/p>\n

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#AHORA | Parte de la delegaci\u00f3n de rescatistas de EEUU enfrenta a Diosdado Cabello y le reclama porque le est\u00e1n saboteando sus esfuerzos de rescatar a las v\u00edctimas.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u00bfNo quieres que vaya y ayude a la persona que est\u00e1 all\u00ed?\u201d. pic.twitter.com\/TzuSG3WKzM<\/p>\n

\u2014 Orlando Avenda\u00f1o (@OrlvndoA) June 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Diosdado Cabello @dcabellor is blocking U.S. rescue teams while bodies are still being recovered from the rubble.
\nAid diverted. Unsafe buildings turned into death traps. Known narcos playing \u201cemergency managers.\u201d American help refused. Press barred. X blocked to hide the truth.\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rick de la Torre (@vrk_rick) June 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Who was the angry little man in the red hat insolently poking at the brave American rescuer, telling him he couldn’t save\u00a0the people crying out from under the rubble?<\/p>\n

This guy:<\/p>\n

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Es momento de ganarse esos mill\u00f3nes gente. Que esperan. pic.twitter.com\/iErhxiLThU<\/p>\n

\u2014 Vitalo (@VitaloP2021) June 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Which seems odd, given that President Trump and other U.S. officials have said cooperation in the rescue effort has been going well.<\/p>\n

The angry red-hatted man poking\u00a0the American rescuer and inexplicably stopping him from rescuing trapped people crying out in the rubble, was no ordinary commissar or bureaucrat, taking orders from someone above him. He was Diodado himself, the second-most powerful person in the rump Chavista government which put itself into place after the U.S. extrication of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife to a prison awaiting trial on drug-traffcking and money-laundering charges in New York.<\/p>\n

The orders he was ‘enforcing’ were his own orders, invented by himself. He really didn’t want the Americans there rescuing Venezuelans, even if those Venezuelans would die if they didn’t. He certainly wasn’t going to rescue them. But neither were the Americans.<\/p>\n

There are theories as to why:<\/p>\n

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\ud83c\uddfb\ud83c\uddeaIt’s an open secret that like Pablo Escobar, members of the current regime reportedly had properties in La Guaira filled with millions of dollars in cash, gold, drugs, and weapons.<\/p>\n

\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Yet people still wonder why they aren’t allowed to enter the US rescue teams. https:\/\/t.co\/gYqJUErqy3<\/p>\n

\u2014 4n4lisis \ud83c\udf10 (@4n4lisis) June 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

But the more likely reason was to challenge the U.S., not just to prevent it from getting too popular with Venezuelans for its rescues as the Venezuelan army stood around and did nothing, but to show President Trump who was boss.<\/p>\n

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All the chavista dictatorship cares about is keeping full control. It\u2019s why Diosdado Cabello had to go make a fool of himself preventing rescues in plain sight. It\u2019s why the armed forces have been ordered to obstruct and not to help save survivors. Their focus now is to portray\u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Germania Rodriguez Poleo (@iamGermania) June 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

By reputation, Diosdado, who runs the shantytown enforcers and other repressive organs,\u00a0is the biggest Chavista thug left in Venezuela. He’s not only is under sanctions for major drug-trafficking offenses, apparently suspended now in the ‘Delcy-our-friend’ era, he’s also the one who is accused of trying to kill then-Sen. Marco Rubio by sending a hit team targeting him in 2017.<\/p>\n

Now he’s bullying the American rescuers, poking one of them in the face and telling him he’s not allowed to save anyone.<\/p>\n

Which clearly calls for a response. Trump sent those people there to accomplish a mission and it’s Diosdado’s job to respect that mission and stay out of the way. He’s not. Clearly, he doesn’t think he has anything to fear from President Trump, so he’s going to need to be educated, same as the Iranians were over the weekend.<\/p>\n

President Trump, however,\u00a0seems to have some really bad advisors who aren’t informing him about this crude and abusive challenge to his authority from a too-big-for-his-britches criminal kingpin\u00a0who is otherwise wanted by U.S. authorities.<\/p>\n

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RESPONSE TO @POTUS<\/p>\n

Mr. President,<\/p>\n

Yesterday you stated the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cOutside of the earthquake, the people are happy and dancing in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is neither right nor fitting at this moment. Many of us are genuinely grateful for what you did to put Maduro and his wife\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Pedro Mario Burelli (@pburelli) June 27, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

And his ambassador is hard to believe:<\/p>\n

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Venezuelans have been expressing anger at statements made by US envoy in Caracas John Barrett during an interview with Univision where he praised the Delcy Rodriguez dictatorship as being \u201ccommitted\u201d to helping the Venezuelan people. Barrett\u2019s statements don\u2019t feel true to what\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Germania Rodriguez Poleo (@iamGermania) June 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

At some point, Trump is going to have to put his foot down. This ‘cohabitation’ with Venezuela’s remaining communist rulers is not working out well at all.<\/p>\n

The only thing Diosdado understands is force. Trump must show it to him immediately. And as long as Trump\u00a0has to, why should he be dealing with this crap anyway?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maduro is in need of a bunkmate in his New York City prison holding cell. It would make Trump massively popular in Venezuela and beyond\u00a0if he swooped in and brought the ex-dictator who is treating Americans without due courtesy a roommate. The critical rescue operation is being impeded in Venezuela by him and Maduro needs someone to fill that top bunk.<\/p>\n

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Image: Screenshot from X video.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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