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Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election

On 27 August 2024 Nicolás Maduro named Diosdado Cabello minister of interior, justice and peace and vice-president for citizen security, in a cabinet shuffle one month after the contested 28 July 2024 presidential election. In the causal graph this event weakens Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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On 27 August 2024 Nicolás Maduro named Diosdado Cabello minister of interior, justice and peace and vice-president for citizen security, in a cabinet shuffle one month after the contested 28 July 2024 presidential election. The National Assembly recorded the designation. AP recorded human-rights groups’ fear that the appointment would intensify the post-election crackdown already running as Operation Tun Tun / Knock Knock. Government “more than 2,000” arrested and NGO tallies diverge; this page does not invent a unique prisoner integer as Contribution.size. Nicolás Maduro named him. Delcy Rodríguez took hydrocarbons the same day.

Context

He had coined Tun Tun in 2017 and amplified it from Con El Mazo Dando. He did not sit as every PNB officer.

28 July 2024 election is parent. OFAC 2018 and SDNY 2020 are earlier parents. Keep Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election on 2024-08-27 separate from neighbouring 18 May 2018 OFAC SDN, 26 March 2020 SDNY indictment, 28 July 2024 election, and 27 August 2024 interior appointment.

The interior, justice and peace minister of Venezuela sits over police and citizen-security. He does not sit as every PNB rifleman, as SEBIN, as OFAC, or as an SDNY jury. Nicolás Maduro is the live captured president; Delcy Rodríguez is the live encargada if public-complete. This run does not mint a cleaner twin.

Why it matters

The path is civic space and electoral integrity: a completed interior appointment after a contested election into a named detention campaign.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Diosdado Cabello

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    verified

    Maduro appointed. He accepted the interior ministry. Delcy took hydrocarbons the same day. Police implemented later raids.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified4 sources on file
  1. 1.Diosdado Cabello RondónU.S. Department of State · verified
  2. 2.Venezuela's Maduro shakes up cabinet after contested electionReuters · verified
  3. 3.cabello-psuv-strongman observation 2024-08-27Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela · High credibility · verified
  4. 4.Asamblea Nacional — Presidente Nicolás Maduro designa a Diosdado Cabello ministro de InteriorAsamblea Nacional de Venezuela · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently.

Established: Maduro named him interior minister on 27 August 2024; AP recorded the shuffle and HRW’s repression warning.

Not established: A unique 2,000-prisoner coefficient as Contribution.size, or that every Knock Knock raid that week was his personal shot.

He accepted the interior ministry. Delcy took hydrocarbons the same day. Police implemented later raids.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election, not a later speech about Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Maduro appointed. He accepted the interior ministry. Delcy took hydrocarbons the same day. Police implemented later raids. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorDiosdado Cabello
  2. contributed toFactMaduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election
  3. weakensDrivers (3)Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-cabello-interior-2024

https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-cabello-interior-2024

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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