"In a post on Monday, Donald Trump said Venezuela would be turning over $2bn worth of crude to the US, a flagship negotiation that would divert supplies from China while helping Venezuela avoid deeper production cuts. In the meantime, US officials have told Cabello through intermediaries, according to Reuters, that if he proves defiant, he could face a fate similar to Maduro's."
"Cabello, for his part, has posted videos on social media showing himself commanding dozens of heavily armed men patrolling the streets of Caracas. He controls the police, counterintelligence agencies and the militias known as colectivos. It's calm, it's tranquil. Your conscious people know what we must do, working to restore the normality that should prevail in the country and get back to work. Today shops opened without any problems, Cabello said in one video, pointing to a clock showing 11pm on Tuesday."
The US put Venezuela's interior minister Diosdado Cabello on notice that he could be next to fall if he does not support acting president Delcy Rodriguez. US officials view Cabello as the regime's real number two and fear he could undermine a plan to retain key Maduro inner-circle figures for stability while enabling a transition and ensuring unrestricted access to Venezuelan oil. President Trump said Venezuela would turn over $2bn of crude to the US, diverting supplies from China and easing production pressures. Cabello posted videos commanding heavily armed men, controls police, counterintelligence, and colectivos, and publicly projected calm.
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