Cabello: Haters call for release of alleged “political prisoners” who are actually drug traffickers

Published at: 11/11/2026 08:03 PM

This Wednesday, November 11, the general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello Rondón, faced with the absurd way of conducting itself by the extremist opposition sector, highlighted the way in which the “haters, calling for the release of alleged political prisoners”.

“There are no political prisoners here (...) every day you see a pod that God of life. What is this? I saw a list drawn up by the haters demanding the release of political prisoners. I think it's good to talk about it,” he said during his Con El Mazo Dando program, on broadcast number 589.

In this regard, he stated that among those named as alleged political prisoners “is a certain Wilson Caisedo, leader of the North Valley Cartel of the paramilitary organization Los Rastrojos, criminal heir to the North Valley Cartel, who entered Venezuela with the purpose of articulating drug routes, but he is a political prisoner according to the haters.”

He also mentioned Oswaldo José Carrasquel, an active member of the Tren del Llano, to ask the relatives and the people extorted and murdered; Eder Manuel Calderín Vargas, “another breasted child nicknamed “The Servant” who is part of a structured organized crime group that lives in the state of Trujillo.”

Cabello also named other criminals who are not political prisoners, such as Fernado Loaiza Chacón, for drug trafficking, “all the dismantling that we did of the drug trafficking routes in the South of the Lake and along the length and breadth of Lake Maracaibo, is now a political prisoner,” he said.

“Drug trafficking pays and collects favors, funding isn't free, they charge it.” The PDVSA Cripto group also appears on the list and named those involved.