Florida lawmakers are urging the White House to move against Diosdado Cabello, one of the most powerful men in Venezuela and one of the most wanted Venezuelan officials in the United States, after an angry exchange with American rescue workers deployed to help after twin earthquakes devastated the country's northwestern coast.
The push, led by Sen. Rick Scott and joined by Florida representatives María Elvira Salazar, Mario Díaz-Balart and Carlos Gimenez, comes as Venezuela faces one of the deadliest disasters in its modern history. Nearly 2,000 people have been confirmed dead and about 64,000 remain missing after the back-to-back quakes tore through coastal communities, collapsing homes, cutting off roads and overwhelming hospitals already strained by years of crisis.
