Pinned
How Delcy Rodríguez rose from sidelined aide to Venezuela’s interim president – and why Donald Trump sees her as a partner.
Joshua Goodman
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Joshua Goodman
@APjoshgoodman
The Associated Press, ex Latin America correspondent based in Miami, a city settled by my fellow Clevelanders
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Joined January 2012
- BREAKING: Prosecutors says Alex Saab was signed up as a cooperating source of @DEAHQ since June 2018 and was scheduled to surrender May 30, 2019. As an informant, Saab provided information on bribes paid to Venezuelan officials. He also forfeited nearly $10 million to the DEA.
- BREAKING: The late Hugo Chavez's nurse and Venezuela's former National Treasurer has been found guilty of money laundering by a jury in south Florida. @AP story upcoming
- One of Colombia’s most-respected columnists @DCoronell gets sacked after publishing a column asking his employer @RevistaSemana why it held for months a story about a military policy seeking to boost body counts. When @nytimes ended up publishing it rocked the establishmentFelipe López, fundador de @RevistaSemana, me acaba de comunicar la decisión de la empresa de cancelar mi columna. Le agradezco a él, a @asantosrubino y especialmente a los lectores por estos años.
- After WWII, then booming Venezuela offered to pay passage for destitute European immigrants, as this ad from 1953 attests. Now, the UN says 2.3 mln have fled the crisis-wracked OPEC nation, most of them for countries far less welcoming than Venezuela once was
- NEW: Amid criminal probe that has led to his house arrest, Colombia's ex President @AlvaroUribeVel hired DC lobbyist for $40,000/month. The contract with DCI Group was signed Aug. 20 by Uribe's son through a Medellin-based entity called 31416 S.A.S. Here's the FARA filing 👇
- A U.S. agent tried to flip Nicolás Maduro’s pilot — offering riches if he secretly flew Venezuela’s leader into U.S. custody. The failed plan, which reads like a Cold War spy novel, shows how far the U.S. has gone to oust Maduro.
- “Colombia doesn’t know the truth because there was—and is—no political will,” says ex warlord Salvatore Mancuso in letter from US jail in which he reaffirms his commitment to reveal all he knows about paramilitary ties to allies of ex president @AlvaroUribeVel
- SCOOP: Ex Miami Congressman David Rivera has been arrested at Atlanta's airport in connection to a criminal probe involving a $50 million consulting contract he signed with a U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.
- NUEVO: Un cable declasificado obtenido por @NSArchive muestra que un alto funcionario del Pentagono creia en 2004 que @AlvaroUribeVel "casi con certeza" tuvo lazos con paramilitares como gobernador. "Es parte del trabajo," agrega el oficial @AP @cearmario apnews.com/3a53a33bdb3a7e…
- The @CarterCenter said a technical mission it sent to Venezuela was unable to verify the results of the country’s presidential election and blamed officials for a “complete lack of transparency” in declaring Nicolas Maduro the winner without publishing polling station tallies.
- Not your typical @AP interview. This one with Venezuelan opposition leader @jguaido was conducted on a boat trying to outmaneuver roadblocks @fisanchezn apnews.com/024758d374c24b…
- Update: Venezuelan security forces have picked up six American oil executives in what their families fear is retaliation for the extradition to US of Maduro ally Alex Saab. The men had been under house arrest. A lawyer for the men says he doesn’t know where they were taken.
- SCOOP: Biden officials turned down a meeting with El Salvador president @nayibbukele when he popped up in DC last week on a previously unreported trip, US sources tell me. Sources said Biden folks wanted to send a signal that relations are under review
