{"id":497912,"date":"2026-01-17T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/u-s-maintained-contact-with-diosdado-cabello-months-before-maduros-capture-sources-reveal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T15:22:01","slug":"u-s-maintained-contact-with-diosdado-cabello-months-before-maduros-capture-sources-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/u-s-maintained-contact-with-diosdado-cabello-months-before-maduros-capture-sources-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. maintained contact with Diosdado Cabello months before Maduro&#8217;s capture, sources reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Washington\/ Caracas. \u2013 The United States held discreet talks with Diosdado Cabello<\/strong>, one of the most powerful men in Chavismo, <strong>months before the capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/strong>, which occurred at the beginning of January 2026, according to sources cited by the Reuters agency and several international media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\nAccording to the report, <strong>the contacts began in mid-2025<\/strong>, when officials from the administration of President Donald Trump opened communication channels with Cabello, current Minister of the Interior and considered the &#8220;number two&#8221; of the Venezuelan ruling party.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conversations were held <strong>before and after<\/strong> the operation that culminated in Maduro&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nSources indicated that <strong>Washington&#8217;s main goal was to avoid an escalation of violence<\/strong> after an eventual fall of the president, urging Cabello to <strong>not order repressive actions<\/strong> by the security forces or the armed militias loyal to Chavismo.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/diosdado-cabello-anuncia\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/diosdado-cabello-anuncia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diosdado Cabello announces he is resuming X, the social network suspended by Maduro in Venezuela<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nContact with Cabello is particularly significant because <strong>he also faces drug trafficking charges in US courts<\/strong>, under the same file that involved Maduro. However, <strong>he was not captured during the operation<\/strong>, which has raised questions about his role in the new Venezuelan political scenario.\n\nIt has not yet been determined whether the exchanges between the administration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/donald-j-trump\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/donald-j-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Donald Trump <\/a> and Diosdado Cabello included matters related to the future governance scheme in Venezuela. Similarly, it is unknown whether the influential leader has heeded the warnings issued by Washington.\n\nSo far, Cabello <strong>has publicly reiterated his commitment to unity with Delcy Rodr\u00edguez<\/strong>, a figure who has received praise from Trump in recent statements.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\/ Caracas. \u2013 The United States held discreet talks with Diosdado Cabello, one of the most powerful men in Chavismo, months before the capture of Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, which occurred at the beginning of January 2026, according to sources cited by the Reuters agency and several international media outlets. According to the report, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[26163,15851,40230,110],"class_list":["post-497912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-diosdado-cabello","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-25wQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}