Latin America & Caribbean
Tareck El Aissami, the meteroric rise of a radical Chavista
Venezuela's vice president has long been identified as a hardliner within the ranks of the country's socialist government.
El Aissami is named on a list of government officials linked to drug trafficking, according to the Treasury Department, resulting in the freezing of his U.S. assets.
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El Aissami during the inauguration of the new director of the state-owned oil company PDVSA, Jan 17, 2017.
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El Aissami, then Minister of Interior, with Russian president Vladimir Putin, during a visit to Venezuela in 2010.
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El Aissami, with Wilson Ramos, Venezuelan baseball player with the Washington Nationals. Ramos was rescued by Venezuelan authorities in 2011 after he was kidnapped.
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El Aissami shows items confiscated in a raid of a drug lab on the Colombian border in 2011.
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El Aissami (Ieft), with the former National Anti-drug Organization (ONA) Néstor Reverol, examining a seized drug plane in January 2010. A few months later both men were named by Venezuelan drug trafficker, Walid Makled, of being involved in his cocaine operations.
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As Minister of Interior El Aissami created Venezuela's Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) to replace ther former 'political police' DISIP.
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