• Profile: Alex Saab, the elusive Colombian businessman at the service of Nicolás Maduro
  • Venezuela: United States captures in Africa Alex Saab, the main figurehead of Nicolás Maduro

Cape Verde, an archipelago at the gates of Africa, is today the scene of a new chapter in the contemporary cold war. On the one hand, the United States insisting on rounding off its master coup against Chavismo and extraditing Colombian businessman Alex Saab, figurehead of Nicolás Maduro and key international operator of the revolution. On the other, Venezuela and its Russian and Cuban allies pressing to rescue the billionaire who gave away key chains before entering the circle of former leftist senator Piedad Córdoba and the Bolivarian revolution.

The process can be "delayed for some time," government sources told the Efe Agency after the capture of the Barranquilla businessman, a fugitive in his country and in the United States, who was accused of money laundering by Interpol as soon as he landed. Friday at the African airport.

A team of lawyers from the Bolivarian regime is already defending Saab, who is risking his future in the Cape Verdean courts in the next few hours after receiving unconditional support from his great friend, Nicolás Maduro. So important is Saab to the "president pueblo" that the communiqué released on Saturday night by the Chavista Foreign Ministry is a public confession: the American torpedo exploded in the middle of its waterline.

In the document, the government recognizes the fugitive Alex Saab as a Bolivarian "agent" , who has been expressly nationalized despite the request for international capture. And with "diplomatic immunity", granted to a corrupt businessman who has amassed billions for his business with Chavista leaders.

Suspicious nationalizations without fulfilling the requirements established by law, unpublished diplomatic appointments in the Gazette and public confirmation, after seven years of denials, that Saab is "one of our" revolutionaries.

"Venezuela has taken all the necessary steps through diplomatic and legal channels to guarantee the human rights of Alex Saab (...) and calls on the Cape Verdean state to release the citizen, facilitating their return and protecting their fundamental rights" , Rivets the note signed by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza. Doors of return open for the ally when on the border with Colombia thousands and thousands of Venezuelan citizens despair at the partial closure ordered by Caracas to prevent their return to the homeland.

"Mr. Arreaza, thank you for helping us demonstrate Saab's connection to his regime and to Maduro. It is the evidence that links you to drugs, money laundering and corruption. It is the clearest evidence of how crime works organized, "replied Carlos Vecchio, US ambassador to the presidency in charge.

The rise and fall, for the moment, of the controversial businessman surrounded by luxuries, works of art and private planes. Little to do today with the scruffy and ponytail businessman who went to the Miraflores Palace in 2011 in the delegation of President Juan Manuel Santos, with Maduro as host chancellor.

The friend of the leftist senator Piedad Córdoba could not miss the summit, having overcome the "winds of war" between the two countries. His meteoric career to the skies of revolution had just begun.

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