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Powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued death order against Rubio
The Miami Herald ^ | 8/13/17 | Patricia Mazzei

Posted on 08/14/2017 8:08:57 AM PDT by cll

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 115th; 201707; 201708; assassinationplots; cabello; deaththreats; diosdadocabello; narcoterrorist; rubio; southamerica; venezuela
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1 posted on 08/14/2017 8:08:58 AM PDT by cll
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To: Da Coyote

Even if it was against Maxine Waters herself, this is an act of war, conspiring to assassinate a sitting U.S. official.


3 posted on 08/14/2017 8:15:07 AM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: cll

Well said!


4 posted on 08/14/2017 8:20:01 AM PDT by proudpapa (This is not the tagline you are looking for.)
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To: cll

“...Even if it was against Maxine Waters herself, this is an act of war, conspiring to assassinate a sitting U.S. official....”

True to that. However, either one is UniParty so no great loss. If one of em had to go, Rubio is preferred because the ultimate RAT campaign would be a MadMaxiPad run for POTUS along with CrazyHank for her running mate. Rubio? Not so much as he’s as useless as teats on a boar hog.


5 posted on 08/14/2017 8:43:21 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: cll

Chicago rules.


6 posted on 08/14/2017 8:45:53 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill

When the Government turns over don’t you think that Trump will remember that?


7 posted on 08/14/2017 9:17:53 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: cll

An act of war.

Take them out.


8 posted on 08/14/2017 10:07:32 AM PDT by xzins ( Support the Freepathon! Every donation is important.)
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To: cll
A friend of mine returned recently from Cancun and was surprised to see numerous federales, not at the airport but at the hotel she was staying at. She was told that the leader of Venezuela had some confab there. I wonder if Rubio was discussed?

The dictator can afford to go to a swanky Cancun resort while his people are pitifully starving.

9 posted on 08/14/2017 10:09:27 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: cll

Hmmm interesting... who’ll going to kill him? A journalist? Or will it be Bill Nelson or DWS?


10 posted on 08/14/2017 10:11:19 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: cll

Narco Rubio - it’s got a ring to it, I can tell you that.


11 posted on 08/14/2017 12:15:55 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: lgjhn23

I would be shocked, shocked, and saddened if something like that happened to Little Marco, but the fact would remain that it could help us politically. Not that I would be happy about that, if it ever came to pass.


12 posted on 08/14/2017 12:17:24 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: ichabod1

yes


13 posted on 08/14/2017 1:18:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ....)
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To: cll

Why the homo cuck Rubio? What a waste of a contract, if true (and it’s probably just Rubio’s P.R. hacks making it all up)


14 posted on 08/14/2017 1:43:07 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: Slyfox

A week or so ago i read where narco terrorists had murdered a bunch in cancun .


15 posted on 08/14/2017 3:22:04 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (President Trump makes obammy look like the punk he is.)
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To: cll

Sorry if this offends any of the Rubio globalist supporters in FR, but I’ve never figured out who he actually supports as far as average Americans. I can assure you he doesn’t begin to support my anti PC pro conservative MAGA beliefs.


16 posted on 08/14/2017 5:14:36 PM PDT by apoliticalone (Political correctness should be defined as news media that exposes political corruption)
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To: cll

Remember that Manuro’s vice-presidential appointee, Tareck El Aissami, is also reported to be a significant presence in drug trafficking. Actually, Manuro may be rudely awaken one morning to find El Aissami in charge.


17 posted on 08/14/2017 5:48:58 PM PDT by Huaynero
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To: cll

Are they planning to poison the soap at the next Bubble Party?


18 posted on 08/14/2017 5:50:50 PM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: cll

Cabello had better remember “Clear and Present Danger” or whatever the second film was called. The hacienda where the drug traffickers were meeting.

“Hello boys! Meet JDAM!”

or it could be Israeli style.

Phone rings: Achmed answers it.

Voice on the phone: “Hello Achmed. Look out the window”

Achmed’s last words: “Damned that missile is close”.


19 posted on 08/15/2017 1:19:33 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: cll

Meanwhile, millions of kids are getting hooked on narcotics because “sitting U.S. officials” facilitate the outcome.

Give me 50 Congressional names that are looking out for you. And that’s only 10% of our so-called representation.


20 posted on 08/15/2017 1:34:52 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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