Venezuela's top thug unwittingly writes an NRA ad for the Second Amendment

American Thinker ^ | 9 Jan, 2026 | Monica Showalter

[MtnClimber]

If you haven't heard of Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela's detested interior minister who commands an army of motorcycle goons, and who has a $25 million reward on his head, second only to former dictator Nicolás Maduro, now's a good time to get a whiff of what he's about.

He actually said this on Venezuelan state television, with his motorcycle goons all around him:[X post in Spanish]

Grok translate:

BREAKING NEWS | Diosdado Cabello: "The country is calm because the monopoly on arms in Venezuela is held by the State". "Holding the position of arms has allowed us the control so that no group or anyone can claim acts of violence"

Except for him, of course. His violent goon squads and death squads hunt down and kill anyone who dissents with the regime. They also deal drugs as the country's biggest drug lords, closely affiliated with Colombia's FARC and ELN Marxist narcoterrorists. The United Nations has put out entire reports about his death squad regime. And no surprise, in 2017, he sent out hit squads to take out then-Sen. Marco Rubio.

He's an ogre who lives by his state gun monopoly, borne of a disarmed population.

Now he's admitted as much -- that the disarming of the Venezuelan population has led to his power and thuggery.

This is a textbook example of what Second Amendment proponents warn about when leftists here in the states call for the disarming of the population. States that do that are left with monsters like Diosdado Cabello, whose source of power rests in an a population without a Second Amendment to protect them.

[Keyhopper]

Piano wire stretched across the road