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Top Venezuelan Official Reads Letter On Air Claiming Marco Rubio Is Spearheading a Plot To Topple The Government

Diosdado Cabello, a senior figure in Maduro's authoritarian government (Credit: AFP)

Diosdado Cabello, the minister of Justice and Peace in Venezuela's authoritarian government, read on air a letter claiming that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is spearheading an initiative to topple it.

Speaking during his weekly show "Con el Mazo," Cabello read a letter from an alleged viewer who claimed that "Rubio is moving forward with his attempt to organize an Operation Gedeon 2.0," a reference to a failed incursion by a group of former military members to enter into Venezuela.

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