Vladimir Padrino López

Meeting those conditions would directly threaten the military factions that profit from them and set Rodriguez against some very powerful associates.

Long serving Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello control most of Venezuela's hard power.

Padrino runs the armed forces, while Cabello commands the Colectivos, which is a collection of paramilitary forces used to intimidate rivals and snuff out dissent.

Both figures remain under US sanctions, and neither has shown any indication of surrendering power.

in the Rodrigato, in the government of Delcy Rodriguez, that the U.S. has an order, wants to change the members of the government, Delcy in the presidency, but they want to get rid of most of the people related to him.

Nicolás Maduro, like Vladimir Padrino, who was Minister of Defense and now he's Minister of Agriculture, and Diosdado Cabello, who still is the Minister of the Interior in charge of the security of Venezuela.

So apparently there's going to be soon, and Del Ciro Rodriguez is going to come up with more technical government, technicians.

So this supposedly will give more credibility to the investors.

Let's see if that is true.

I'm sure that probably there will be a change in the minister's of the government of Delcy Rodriguez, because as it is now, it's not working.

And to have Diosdado Cabello and Vladimir Padrino in the cabinet of Delcy is a very bad signal.

I would say that if this change comes, it should be before the midterms election, before the 3rd of January.

He was added as part of a package aimed at allies of Nicolás Maduro.

That package included his sister, Delcy, Maduro's wife, Celia Flores, and then-Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino.

Delcy was delisted on April 1st.

This comes as the third round of U.S.-backed talks was scheduled to begin Wednesday.

Yes.

So there are the, the top leaders of the regime nowadays are Delcy; her brother, Jorge, who is the president of the parliament; Diosdado Cabello, who is the chief of the intelligence and is perhaps the most savage of, uh, of them all; and, um, Vladimir Padrino, who was recently demoted.

He was the minister of defense, and the Trump administration got them to demote him, and now he's, like, doing some things in agriculture that nobody cares about.

Uh, but that's, that was really interesting and I think an achievement.