2023-12-21 15:10:22
The bars of the Federal Detention Center in Miami began to open on Wednesday, December 21, around 7:45 in the morning so that one of the prisoners considered a ‘trophy’ for the FBI and the United States Department of Justice could leave. .
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Under the order of forgiveness and total clemency, a document from the Executive ordered the immediate release of Álex Naín Saab Morán from Barranquilla, accused of being the front man of Nicolás Maduro and the architect of a mega money laundering operation of more than 350 million dollars.
The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro (i), receives the Colombian businessman Alex Saab.
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EFE/ Miguel Gutiérrez
The two key summits
Some members of the FBI and even the CIA were baffled that, in less than 45 minutes, the man they had pursued for almost a decade boarded a government jet and was taken to Caracas, in the middle of a security operation, until deliver it to the secret service of the Miraflores Palace.
However, sources familiar with the entire negotiation, stationed in Miami, told EL TIEMPO that senior officials in that country’s Department of Justice were aware of the negotiations between Washington and Caracas, which included Saab.
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“His release is part of a much larger and more ambitious agreement, which includes everything from the authorization of opposition candidates to participate in the 2024 presidential elections in Venezuela, to the release of 14 of its members,” the source explained. aware.
‘Maduro finalized the agreement in Qatar’
Jorge Rodríguez, president of the Venezuelan Assembly, and Juan S. Gonzalez, Biden advisor.
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EFE-MIGUEL GUTIÉRREZ / Twitter: @Cartajuanero
And he assured that the meeting in Qatar (last June), which Maduro attended; and another in Barbados (on December 7), were definitive for Saab to be free today.
“For this reason, the agreement for Alex’s freedom is called ‘Barbados Agreement’. Maduro was not there, but he had already refined the issue in Qatar, which wants to become the new ‘chancellor’ of the world. Don’t forget that from there strings were pulled for the truce between Israel and Palestine,” said another informed source.
Even Antony Blinken, secretary of state of the Biden government, attended the meeting in Qatar. There Maduro would have promised to guarantee the participation of the opposition in the presidential elections and once again conditioned the agreement on Saab being released.
“Since the dialogue table was set up with the opposition in Mexico, which was then attempted to open to Colombia, the condition has always been Álex’s freedom. In those conversations, another of the officials who has been active is Mr. Juan González ( of Colombian origin), head of the National Security Council for the Western Hemisphere,” explained the informed source.
Gratitude or vaults with gold?
The president of the Venezuelan assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, Maduro’s delegate for negotiations and who knows part of the story, attended the event in Barbados. The other is the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Yván Gil Pinto.
And for the United States, in addition to Blinken, Roger Carstens, from the United States Office of Hostage Affairs, was aware.
“According to what was said at the table, beyond the links between Saab and Maduro, Venezuela owed a debt of gratitude to Saab because he risked violating the United States embargoes and flying to Iran to exchange gold for food and gasoline. we were in full pandemic and there was only fuel for two days,” explained a source in Caracas.
The other version, however, is that Saab still has several secrets from the regime and the keys to open vaults with dollars and gold bars, some of which are opened with a biometric system: “Only Saab can access this.”
Efraín Antonio Campo Flores and Francisco Flores de Freitas, nephews of the first lady of Venezuela, Cilia Flores.
Sources agree that Biden is going all out with this political arrangement. And that could be the great success or failure of his administration, in the face of his re-election race.
For now, there are 14 more released, on the United States side, and Saab, on the Venezuelan side, who join the first lady’s nephews, convicted of drug trafficking in federal courts and today alongside the presidential family.
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