Marco Rubio gets extra security after ‘the Pablo Escobar of Venezuela’ may have issued a death order to kill the Florida senator
The United States government fears that a powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued an order to kill Florida Senator Marco Rubio
Rubio has been assigned a beefed-up security detail in recent weeks
US intelligence reportedly learned that a former Venezuelan military chief, Diosdado Cabello, ‘may have put out a hit on the Republican senator’
Rubio has derisively referred to Cabello as ‘the Pablo Escobar of Venezuela’ due to longstanding suspicions that he has engaged in drug trafficking
By ARIEL ZILBER
DAILYMAIL.COM
14 August 2017
The United States government fears that a powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued an order to kill Florida Senator Marco Rubio, it was reported on Sunday.
Rubio has been assigned a beefed-up security detail in recent weeks after US intelligence reportedly learned that a former Venezuelan military chief, Diosdado Cabello, put out a hit on the Republican senator, according to the Miami Herald.
The Herald emphasizes that the US government has yet to gather information indicating the existence of a concrete plot to assassinate the former presidential candidate.
Nonetheless, the Department of Homeland Security took the precautionary step of bolstering Rubio’s security details in both Washington, DC, and his native Miami.
The DHS issued a memo in which it noted that intelligence indicated ‘an order to have Senator Rubio assassinated’ while cautioning that ‘no specific information regarding an assassination plot against Senator Rubio has been garnered thus far.’
The memo goes on to speculate that Cabello may have contacted ‘unspecified Mexican nationals’ as part of a plan to harm Rubio, though no specific evidence is cited.
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