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AP Sources: US Sanctions Venezuela’s New Vice President
http://dfw.cbslocal.com ^ | February 13, 2017 | AP Sources

Posted on 02/13/2017 4:38:59 PM PST by Enterprise

The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on Venezuela’s new Vice President Tareck El Aissami and accusing him of playing a major role in international drug trafficking. (snip)

The U.S. is also sanctioning Samark Bello, a wealthy businessman connected to El Aissami who has held significant business interests in the U.S. The U.S. says Bello provided assistance or support to El Aissami’s trafficking activities.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: baathparty; bello; communism; crime; drugs; elaissami; hezbollah; iran; iraq; narcoterrorists; saddam; saddamhussein; samarkbello; syria; tareckelaissami; tarikelaissami; tariqelaissami; terrorism; terrorists; trafficking; venezuela; wod
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1 posted on 02/13/2017 4:38:59 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: Enterprise
It sounds like Obama just let this ride.

Wonder what Trump will do with Cuba.

I love the cr** Obama pulled with the "get to our shores and your home free" policy shut down...just a few days before he left.

2 posted on 02/13/2017 4:43:53 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

I think that there is no way that the Obama administration did NOT know of his involvement. For that matter, there must be a whole more leftists involved in various Latin American Governments who are also involved in narcotics and money laundering. I think our Government pretty much knows who they ALL are. And I agree that the Obama administration just let them slide.


3 posted on 02/13/2017 4:49:50 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

sounds like he’s a muzzie


4 posted on 02/13/2017 4:52:36 PM PST by dontreadthis (I finally came up with this tagline)
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To: Sacajaweau

The U.S. is also sanctioning Samark Bello, a wealthy businessman connected to El Aissami who has held significant business interests in the U.S. The U.S. says Bello provided assistance or support to El Aissami’s trafficking activities.


5 posted on 02/13/2017 4:59:07 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: WellyP

https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/as0005.aspx?src=ilaw


6 posted on 02/13/2017 5:04:35 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: dontreadthis
Looks like he also has ties to terrorists.

U.S. sanctions Venezuelan vice president and accuses him of being a drug kingpin

"El Aissami is one of the main contacts in Latin America for the extremist organizations, said Luis Fleischman, senior adviser at the Center for Security Policy (CSP) in Washington, D.C.
“He is one of Venezuela's main contacts with Hezbollah,” said Fleischman, who keeps a close eye on the South American country. “He has been providing logistical and financial support to those organizations.”

7 posted on 02/13/2017 5:05:04 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise

Tareck? Muslim?


8 posted on 02/13/2017 5:11:30 PM PST by lavaroise (s)
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To: Enterprise

Since when is “Tareck El Aissami” a Spanish name? Oh, It’s Not! This guy is connected with the Iranians and Hezzbollah.

He’s facilitating the infiltration of terrorists into South America. “A little-discussed feature, at least here in the US, of Chavez’s socialist regime was its ties to hardline Islamists. For example, from 2007 to at least 2010, there was a flight from Caracas, Venezuela, to Tehran, Iran, that made a stop in Damascus, Syria.”-Business Insider Jan. 05


9 posted on 02/13/2017 5:11:48 PM PST by muleskinner
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To: muleskinner

Bookmark


10 posted on 02/13/2017 5:12:15 PM PST by tapatio (In memory of my Dad 5-27-26 2-4-2010 and Mom 4-20-26 12-8-2012)
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To: dontreadthis
He was born in Venezuela, and Wikipedia has this:

El Aissami was born on November 12, 1974[4] and was one of five children.[5] He spent his childhood in El Vigía, Mérida, Venezuela.[6] His father, Zaidan El Amin El Aissami, who is also known as Carlos Zaidan, was a Druze immigrant from Jabal al-Druze in Syria[7] and was an alleged military associate of Saddam Hussein.[8][9] Zaidan, who led a local Ba'athist Party in Venezuela and had connections with leftist political movements in the Middle East, supported Hugo Chávez during the February 1992 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt and was arrested.[10][5] His mother is of Lebanese origin.[11] Tareck El Aissami

11 posted on 02/13/2017 5:13:33 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Sacajaweau

Obama let it ride because the guy is of Syrian descent and very much supports the regime in Iran. Hezbollah


12 posted on 02/13/2017 5:14:45 PM PST by piasa
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To: muleskinner; lavaroise

See post #11.


13 posted on 02/13/2017 5:15:42 PM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Enterprise; Fedora

ping


14 posted on 02/13/2017 5:17:10 PM PST by piasa
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To: piasa
Venezuela may have given passports to people with ties to terrorism
15 posted on 02/13/2017 5:39:13 PM PST by Fedora
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16 posted on 02/13/2017 5:45:04 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: Enterprise

All those Obama sanctions against Russia buy not one for a nation starving it’s people to death.


17 posted on 02/13/2017 7:13:50 PM PST by RedWulf (TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP!)
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To: Enterprise

Obama’s presidency was a coup.


18 posted on 02/13/2017 7:14:30 PM PST by RealVirginia
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To: RealVirginia

Specifically, a Muslim-communist one.


19 posted on 02/13/2017 7:16:45 PM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)
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To: Enterprise

The Druze... They change spots.


20 posted on 02/14/2017 12:25:31 AM PST by lavaroise (s)
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