29 Facts About Diosdado Cabello

Diosdado Cabello Rondon was born on 15 April 1963 and is a Venezuelan politician who currently serves as Minister of Interior, Justice and Peace since 2024.

Diosdado Cabello is an active member of the Venezuelan armed forces, with the rank of captain.

Diosdado Cabello played a key role in Hugo Chavez's return to power following the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'etat attempt.

Diosdado Cabello became a leading member of Chavez's Movimiento V Republica, and remains a leading member of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela, into which MVR was merged in 2007.

Diosdado Cabello was elected president of the National Assembly each year until 2016.

Diosdado Cabello was the second and last president of the 2017 National Constituent Assembly.

Diosdado Cabello has been accused by Venezuelan defectors and pro-opposition media of being a major figure in the Cartel of the Suns, using nepotism to reward friends and family members, and directing colectivos while paying them with funds from Petroleos de Venezuela.

Diosdado Cabello was born in El Furrial, in the state of Monagas.

Diosdado Cabello's measured intelligence quotient was ranked as the fifth-highest among all students in the institution's history.

Diosdado Cabello has an undergraduate degree in systems engineering from the Instituto Universitario Politecnico de las Fuerzas Armadas Nacionales and a graduate degree in engineering project management from the Andres Bello Catholic University.

Diosdado Cabello was jailed for his participation in the coup, though President Rafael Caldera later pardoned him with the rest of the coup participants and Diosdado Cabello was released after only two years without any charges.

Specifically, it ended the state's prior monopoly on the industry and fostered a significant level of free-market competition, as Diosdado Cabello's work helped increase the treasury's revenue by $400 million dollars at a time when oil prices were not especially high.

On 28 April 2002, Diosdado Cabello was replaced as Vice President by Jose Vicente Rangel.

Diosdado Cabello was named interior minister in May 2002, and then infrastructure minister in January 2003.

In October 2004, Diosdado Cabello was elected to a four-year term as Governor of Miranda State.

On 11 December 2011, Diosdado Cabello was installed as the Vice-President of the United Socialist Party, thus becoming the second most powerful figure in the party after Hugo Chavez.

Diosdado Cabello was appointed president of the National Assembly in early 2012 and was re-elected to that post in January 2013.

Some argue that Diosdado Cabello was constitutionally required to be the acting President, but Nicolas Maduro held the position.

Diosdado Cabello has his own weekly program on Venezolana de Television, Con el Mazo Dando.

Diosdado Cabello's sister, Glenna, is a political scientist and was Counsellor of the Venezuelan Permanent Mission to the United Nations.

On 9 July 2020, Diosdado Cabello tested positive for COVID-19, during the pandemic in Venezuela.

Diosdado Cabello has been accused, by defector Leamsy Salazar, of being a leading figure in an international drug trafficking organization, of using nepotism to reward friends and family members by the Atlantic and of directing colectivos while paying them with funds from Petroleos de Venezuela by opposition media in Venezuela.

On 13 August 2017, The Miami Herald reported that a US Department of Homeland Security memo alleged that Diosdado Cabello may have initiated an assassination plot targeting Rubio, and may have contacted "unspecified Mexican nationals" to discuss killing Rubio.

Diosdado Cabello is a strong critic of Rubio, whom he dubbed "Narco Rubio".

Diosdado Cabello has been sanctioned by several countries and is banned from entering neighboring Colombia.

Diosdado Cabello, known as number two in Chavismo, had not been sanctioned by the US when the European Union sanctioned him.

Diosdado Cabello denied the reports, stating that it would be foolish to have assets located in a place where they could be seized.

On 28 March 2018, Diosdado Cabello was sanctioned by Switzerland due to "human rights violations and the deterioration of the rule of law and democratic institutions", freezing their funds and banning them from entering Switzerland.

The Mexican Senate froze the assets of officials of the Maduro administration, including Diosdado Cabello, and prohibited them from entering Mexico on 20 April 2018.