Posted on 02/13/2017 7:12:45 PM PST by tcrlaf
U.S. authorities on Monday said the vice president of Venezuela was an international drug trafficker and slapped severe sanctions on him. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said Tareck El Aissami has played a "significant role in international narcotics trafficking," a news release said. "OFAC's action today is the culmination of a multi-year investigation under the Kingpin Act to target significant narcotics traffickers in Venezuela and demonstrates that power and influence do not protect those who engage in these illicit activities," said John Smith, acting director of OFAC.
El Aissami, who was appointed vice president of Venezuela in January, is a former interior and justice minister and governor of the country's Aragua state. The Treasury Department said he "facilitated shipments of narcotics from Venezuela to include control over planes that leave from a Venezuelan air base, (and) narcotics shipments of over 1,000 kilograms from Venezuela on multiple occasions, including those with the final destinations of Mexico and the United States." In addition, the department said El Aissami is linked to coordinating drug shipments to Los Zetas, a violent Mexican drug cartel, and provided protection to a Colombian drug lord.
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Trump is starting to move the dominoes.
Several English language stories about this now, but VERY FEW mention Trump sanctions and DRUG TRAFFICKING in the title, together.
Hannity reporting on this now. My Question, How much were certain Democrats BEING PAID to look the other way??
Eric Holder is Vice President of Venezuela now?
Is this guy a Muslim?
Look at his relatives listed below:
Tareck El Aissami
Vice President of Venezuela
Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah is a Venezuelan politician who has been Vice President of Venezuela since 4 January 2017, appointed by President Nicolás Maduro. Previously he was Governor of Aragua. Wikipedia
Born: November 12, 1974 (age 42 years), El Vigía, Venezuela
Nationality: Venezuelan
Party: United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Office: Vice President of Venezuela since 2017
Siblings: Haifa Al-Aissami, Amin Obayda El Aissami, Firaz Al-Aissami
Parents: Zaidan El Amin El Aissami, May Maddah de El Aissami
It certainly looks like he is, and his parents are immigrants.
CC
After being in and living in California since 1970, I have been exposed to a lot of Spanish surnames.
Those connected to him don’t appear to be Spanish.
Of course our mediots would never tell us that he is a drug dealing jihadist.
Exactly and the rats and their mediots hid this reality from us.
Also, his lineage appears to be Muslim not Spanish.
Look at his relatives listed below:
Tareck El Aissami
Vice President of Venezuela
Tareck Zaidan El Aissami Maddah is a Venezuelan politician who has been Vice President of Venezuela since 4 January 2017, appointed by President Nicolás Maduro. Previously he was Governor of Aragua. Wikipedia
Born: November 12, 1974 (age 42 years), El Vigía, Venezuela
Nationality: Venezuelan
Party: United Socialist Party of Venezuela
Office: Vice President of Venezuela since 2017
Siblings: Haifa Al-Aissami, Amin Obayda El Aissami, Firaz Al-Aissami
Parents: Zaidan El Amin El Aissami, May Maddah de El Aissami
Most of the first names are mainstream Arabic, with his sister’s name “Haifa” being popular with girls in Lebanon.
CC
Mnuchin and our new AG, Jeff Sessions are having instant results for our side.
When they have been in office a month, we will not believe who they have fired, forced out and started criminal proceedings against.
Smells like Noriega.
Wow!
Trump is wasting no time.
Underestimate the man at your own peril, world!
So glad I voted for him!
Yep. Isn’t that one of the reasons Reagan sent us into Panama? To get Noriega?
Daniel Duquenal, who blogs from the increasingly hungry and sick nation of Venezuela, ID’s this guy as a narco trafficker in his writing.
He’s worthy of sanction from the USA and hopefully this will be part of policies to help bring down the regime in Venezuela.
Things will only get worse with hungry people fleeing into neighboring countries.
Actually, GHWB did that.
How can this be? BHO was so friendly to Venezuela. Could it be that he didn’t know?/s
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