US Maintains Ties With Venezuelan Strongman Linked to Chile Killing Probe
ProPublica reveals that the Trump administration has worked directly with Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister under U.S. drug-charges, despite his suspected role in ordering a 2024 kidnapping and killing of exiled dissident Ronald Ojeda in Chile by Tren de Aragua operatives. The arrangement appears to trade Cabello’s cooperation for U.S. goals in Venezuela, even as Chile pursues the case and the ICC investigates Maduro’s government. The episode highlights a controversial US-Venezuela dynamic amid ongoing extraditions and tensions over oil and democracy.