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Maduro's top confidant tried to sneak Hezbollah into Venezuela, made deals with drug lords...
Fox News ^ | 5/04/19 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 05/04/2019 11:36:23 AM PDT by Libloather

Venezuela’s ex-vice president and now the top confidant of Nicolas Maduro is said to have tried sneaking in Hezbollah militants into his country, made a business deal with a drug lord and became extremely wealthy as the once-rich country turned into an economic basket case.

Tareck El Aissami has emerged as a hardliner of Maduro’s socialist regime as the country remains on the brink of an all-out civil war due to economic misery.

**SNIP**

But El Aissami, while not having the same scrutiny as Maduro, has long been the subject of various investigations both at home and in the U.S. over the way he wielded his political power to get wealthy and support terror groups.

According to a dossier compiled by Venezuelan agents and obtained by the New York Times, El Aissami and his father, Carlos Zaidan El Aissami, allegedly recruited members of the Hezbollah terror group to help with spying and drug trafficking operations in the region.

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Isn't socialism grand?

Full title - Maduro's top confidant tried to sneak Hezbollah into Venezuela, made deals with drug lords, became rich as nation struggled

1 posted on 05/04/2019 11:36:23 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Typical.


2 posted on 05/04/2019 11:47:59 AM PDT by carmen2017
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To: Libloather

He must be running low on supporters.


3 posted on 05/04/2019 12:14:08 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Jonty30

Making a deal with the devil.


4 posted on 05/04/2019 12:17:10 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: Libloather

Isn’t it funny how the bad guys , in other words everybody against the good old United States of America , always been together in their little evil schemes?

Kind of like Germany Italy and Japan during World War II

What the hell did those countries have in common at all?

Only one thing : evil

Evil in the end is weak

Only love has any power at all in the universe

I always stop anybody whenever they start a sentence with “I hate”

Some of the more evil people on the planet right now or actually the cartel members and their antics and human trafficking

The mafia They AINT


5 posted on 05/04/2019 1:57:11 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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6 posted on 05/09/2019 12:00:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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