# Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election Date: 2024 ## The fact On 27 August 2024 [Nicolás Maduro](/people/nicolas-maduro) named [Diosdado Cabello](/people/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](/organizations/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](/people/delcy-rodriguez) 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. ## Evidence and sources Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [civic space](/drivers/civic-space) and electoral integrity: a completed interior appointment after a contested election into a named detention campaign. ## What is established and what is not 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. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. 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. Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election on 2024-08-27 is not a licence to treat every later Asamblea Nacional de Venezuela communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Maduro names Diosdado Cabello interior minister after the contested 28 July election into a personality. 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. ## People - Diosdado Cabello: https://factrail.ai/people/diosdado-cabello ## Drivers - Cabello PSUV strongman and interior repression: https://factrail.ai/drivers/cabello-psuv-strongman - Civic Space: https://factrail.ai/drivers/civic-space - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://2021-2025.state.gov/bureau-of-international-narcotics-and-law-enforcement-affairs/releases/2025/01/diosdado-cabello-rondon/ - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-maduro-prepares-executive-changes-state-oil-firm-pdvsa-sources-say-2024-08-27/ - https://apnews.com/article/maduro-cabinet-shuffle-diosdado-cabello-66d9d34ce5f8ba5bc477fb1eb8ccd4ac - https://www.asambleanacional.gob.ve/noticias/presidente-nicolas-maduro-designa-al-diputado-diosdado-cabello-ministro-de-interior ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ve-cabello-interior-2024