Did A Top Venezuelan Leader Put A Contract To Assassinate U.S. Senator Marco Rubio?

Miami Herald: Powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued death order against Rubio

One of Venezuela’s most powerful leaders may have put out an order to kill Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a fervent critic of the South American country’s government, according to intelligence obtained by the U.S. last month.

Though federal authorities couldn’t be sure at the time if the uncorroborated threat was real, they took it seriously enough that Rubio has been guarded by a security detail for several weeks in both Washington and Miami.

Believed to be behind the order: Diosdado Cabello, the influential former military chief and lawmaker from the ruling socialist party who has publicly feuded with Rubio.

At a July 19 Senate hearing, the same day he was first spotted with more security, Rubio repeated his line that Cabello — who has long been suspected by U.S. authorities of drug trafficking — is “the Pablo Escobar of Venezuela.” A week ago on Twitter, Cabello dubbed the senator “Narco Rubio.”

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WNU Editor: Venezuela is a country that is falling apart, and its leaders are looking for targets to blame and/or eliminate. Did someone order the assassination of U.S. senator Marco Rubio .... who knows .... but Venezuela is now a very dangerous place, and its leaders are becoming unpredictable.

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