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Claims (36)
Michael Nadler covered_up
Alex Saab host_asserted
“on a backdated Interpol. Because, of course, if you look up that guy, you're going to find he's the guy that convicted Alex Saab. And we've already went through that whole story. And that whole thing was a CIA operation. So, Illini, go ahea…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devils Chessboard Part 10 @ 1:52:37
Alex Saab founded
Shantex S.A. host_asserted
“Saab launched his first business venture when he was 18 years old. His friends all scoffed at his efforts engulfing their Venezuelan neighbor at the turn of the century. Saab eagerly looked across the border to cut deals. By 2004, his expor…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 17:16
Armondo exposed
Alex Saab host_asserted
“attack on CLAP was primarily focused on Saab, asserting that he operated a vast corrupt network by providing food. He was accused of enabling Venezuela's government to illegally profit from food imports and distribution in a U.S. Treasury r…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 19:11
Steve Mnuchin exposed
Alex Saab host_asserted
“all the while pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars through a number of fraudulent schemes, Steve Mnuchin said. Washington's mission to overthrow Venezuelan government would place the Caribbean businessman most responsible for CLAP's su…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 14:49
Francisco Rodriguez exposed
Alex Saab book_quoted
“had raised the cost of doing business throughout Venezuela. Francisco Rodriguez, the economist and Maduro critic, therefore argued that the fact that any firm providing goods and services to Venezuelan government runs the risk of being accu…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 21:09
Alex Saab traded_network_to
Turkey host_asserted
“oil-for-food agreement with Caracas as evidence that the state and private entities alike faced major risks if they engaged in Venezuelan government, yet the firms in Mexico were not targeted. A second allegation consistently lobbed at Saab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 22:09
Alex Saab traded_network_to
Iran host_asserted
“oil-for-food agreement with Caracas as evidence that the state and private entities alike faced major risks if they engaged in Venezuelan government, yet the firms in Mexico were not targeted. A second allegation consistently lobbed at Saab…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 22:09
Alex Saab traded_network_to
Iran host_asserted
“between 2001 and 2013. Since Saab entered the picture, he had been credited with, or accused of, depending on who you talk to, stimulating ties between Caracas and Tehran to unprecedented heights, an act that would eventually rescue Venezue…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 27:35
Nicolás Maduro appointed
Alex Saab host_asserted
“U.S. officials initiated a plan to hinder his diplomatic efforts to feed and fuel Venezuela once and for all. On June 12, 2020, Maduro dispatched Saab on an official mission to Iran, where he was tasked for procuring medicine, food, and oth…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 34:35
Cape Verdean authorities ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab host_asserted
“Cape Verde, a routine excursion that did not require him to exit the plane or pass through immigration. They were just there for fuel. As Saab's aircraft refueled on the tarmac of the airport, Cape Verdean authorities suddenly demanded that…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 35:06
Interpol issued
Alex Saab documented
“Cape Verde claimed to have detained Saab in compliance with an Interpol red notice seeking his arrest. Who put that Interpol red notice in the system? You're about to find out. Yet while Interpol did eventually post a red notice for Saab, i…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 35:40
United States ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“which never happened. Cape Verde was acting on the orders of the U.S. government, Saab's attorney said. Their claims are further backed by media reports that a private jet owned by U.S. government contractors, Presidential Aviation, that's …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 38:09
Presidential Aviation provided_bridge_financing_for
Alex Saab documented
“which never happened. Cape Verde was acting on the orders of the U.S. government, Saab's attorney said. Their claims are further backed by media reports that a private jet owned by U.S. government contractors, Presidential Aviation, that's …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 38:09
Mike Pompeo ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab book_quoted
“Upon learning the diplomat's jet would stop in Cape Verde to refuel, Pompeo said he called Attorney General Bill Barr and arranged for our ambassador in Cape Verde in the Department of Justice to file the paperwork for his extradition to th…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 39:41
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab book_quoted
“Mike Pompeo wrote that Trump's Venezuelan envoy and Iran-Contra crook, Elliott Abrams, first briefed him on the plot days before it went into effect. According to Pompeo, Abrams informed him that some clever drug enforcement agency folks ha…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 39:12
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab documented
“Particularly, Abrams had pushed for the ship's deployment out of fear the US would lose an unusual opportunity to punish Mr. Maduro. That was in the New York Times. If Saab's detention lingered on, Abrams and his cronies claimed that withou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 42:12
Cape Verdean authorities ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“Meanwhile, Saab's lawyers accused Cape Verde authorities of routinely blocking them from meeting with their client while subjecting him to dehumanization torturous conditions. On top of obstructing his legal counsel, local authorities denie…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 46:18
Swiss authorities asserted
Alex Saab documented
“that lacked proof of legal justification. Earlier that year, prosecutors in Geneva concluded an investigation into Saab's Swiss bank accounts and determined there was no evidence to pursue money laundering case against him. The public prose…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 47:18
Economic Community of West African States ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab documented
“a regional court for the Economic Community of West African States, of which Cape Verde is a member, demanded its government transfer Saab to house arrest, an order that Cape Verde complied with the following month. Weeks later, the same co…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 47:48
Cape Verde Supreme Court ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab documented
“after his arrest. The court further demanded Cape Verde discontinue all proceedings and processes aimed at extraditing him to the U.S., even instructing the government to pay the diplomat $200,000 in damage for wrongful arrests. Cape Verde …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 48:16
Cape Verde ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab documented
“his extradition to the U.S. They decided that the $400 million was more important than complying with the law. Cape Verde did not officially ship the diplomat to Miami until October 16th. At around 5 p.m., a Gulfstream owned by the U.S. Jus…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 48:46
Camilla Fabre Saab asserted
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“The author spoke with his wife in December of 2021. And she started off by saying, I'm doing this interview for Alex. And went on to say she explained his whole plight of trying to feed Venezuelans. Fabre Saab went on to recount how Alex ma…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 50:56
United States ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“Through the U.S. government's case against the diplomat concerned allegations that he laundered funds related to the construction of Venezuela's public housing. Saab's advocates maintain the charges were simply a pretext for extradition. On…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 53:28
The New York Times asserted
Alex Saab documented
“was printed in December 2020, Times report on the Navy ship's deployment to Cape Verde. Buried in the piece in the New York Times, conceded that Saab's captivity, quote, stripped Mr. Maduro of an important ally and a major financial fixer a…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 54:26
Forbes asserted
Alex Saab documented
“in a much bigger game. An October 2021 explanation of the diplomat's case in Forbes similarly admitted that, quote, for the US, Saab is a key that unlocks the Venezuelan monetary mystery. That is, how a country facing sanctions from the US …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 55:28
Mike Pompeo asserted
Alex Saab book_quoted
“alliance with designated U.S. enemy states. And Esper asserted that, quote, allowing countries like Russia, China, and Iran to gain strength in the Western Hemisphere was of great concern, unquote. Pompeo was more openly ideological, writin…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 56:30
Mark Esper asserted
Alex Saab book_quoted
“It depends on what swab, who is now in jail in the U.S. on money laundering charges that doesn't exist, chooses to share with us, unquote. Esper echoed Pompeo's hope the diplomat would cooperate with U.S. authorities and divulge Venezuela's…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 58:02
United States ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“This fact, combined with his successful drive to neutralize U.S. attacks on the oil sector of Venezuela, transformed the businessman turned diplomat into a general in the global fight against Western financial tyranny. Though international …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:00:33
Robert Scola asserted
Alex Saab documented
“Robert Scola of the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida dismissed all seven money laundering charges filed against Saab in November 2021, leaving him to face a single count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. So they have no evide…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:02:01
Saab's legal team asserted
Alex Saab documented
“And conspiracy to do something is significantly different than having evidence that it was actually done. The following December, the author attended an evidentiary hearing in the trial. Over the course of two days, Saab's defense team impl…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:02:27
Florian Mandel asserted
Alex Saab documented
“that he was carrying official Venezuelan government documents, including a letter personally addressed from President Maduro to the Iranian government at the time of his detention. Photographs of the envelopes and diplomatic testimony from …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:02:59
Robert Scola asserted
Alex Saab documented
“to thank you from the deepest soul of this earth for the support you have bravely and resolutely given to Venezuela, upholding international law and laying bare empires made of paper, Maduro had written. Judge Scola denied Saab's request fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:04:01
United States ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab documented
“to thank you from the deepest soul of this earth for the support you have bravely and resolutely given to Venezuela, upholding international law and laying bare empires made of paper, Maduro had written. Judge Scola denied Saab's request fo…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:04:01
United States ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“The U.S. government dropped them. It's just literally crazy. Rules for thee, but not me. Yeah. And to me, the biggest irony of all of this is the connection between, hey, we can starve your country and then force you to only deal with our f…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:05:36
John Bolton ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“We already know Pompeo's a bad guy. We know Abrams a bad guy. And John Bolton was involved in all of this. OK, that was that was kind of going to be my question. Yeah. So it is completely possible because they did it to JFK, too, to feed fa…”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:06:58
Elliot Abrams ordered_assassination_of
Alex Saab guest_asserted
“And Abrams is like his right hand man. Right. Absolute douchebag is douchebag and a half. Yeah. So where do you get the real information from? Well, and not that I trust Bill Barr either. No. Yeah. I mean, it was Bill Barr's attorneys that …”
▶ The Colonels Corner-Corporate Coup (Venezuela) Part 4 @ 1:07:57
Mentions (27)
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report authored by these economists. Instead, she provided official UN cover for Washington's financial war and justified attacks on the CLAP program, including the extrajudicial kidnapping of its facilitator, Alex Saab, one year following …
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We turned them over to local governments to create housing for their local population. The author visited Verte Tiona in February 2019 and observed in an oasis of urban security within a city previously defined by poverty and petty crime. I…
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Moran. Alex Saab is the focus of this chapter, a Colombian businessman who would ultimately sacrifice a life of wealth and privilege in defense of Venezuelans' sanctioned public. Saab was born to Lebanese immigrant parents in Colombia in 19…
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Saab launched his first business venture when he was 18 years old. His friends all scoffed at his efforts engulfing their Venezuelan neighbor at the turn of the century. Saab eagerly looked across the border to cut deals. By 2004, his expor…
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Saab cemented his relationship with Chavismo in 2011 when he won a contract to provide building materials for Venezuela's public housing mission. Five years later, he signed a deal to procure goods for 10 million clap boxes, marking his for…
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In April 2018, Saab's efforts to sustain CLAP-inspired Venezuelan government to appoint him as a special envoy to its foreign ministry, an act that granted the businessman official diplomacy status. Saab's work for CLAP, for obvious reasons…
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Considering the entire program was designed to subvert unilateral U.S. sanctions, the supply lines and deals Saab brokered were naturally subject to sabotage, especially when the secondary sanctions kicked in against foreign entities conduc…
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attack on CLAP was primarily focused on Saab, asserting that he operated a vast corrupt network by providing food. He was accused of enabling Venezuela's government to illegally profit from food imports and distribution in a U.S. Treasury r…
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are Mondo that purported to reveal a scheme through which Saab overcharged Venezuelan government for services related to CLAP so that he and others could pocket surplus and profit immensely. Now, again, I just have to highlight this. There'…
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He's a dictator. Wouldn't you close down the media that's criticizing you? I mean, if I was a dictator, I would. And that's exactly what U.S.-backed dictators do immediately for this very reason. On the surface, the expose appeared damning.…
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Armando presented its fraud case against Saab by contrasting figures listed on his clap invoices with the market price of those same goods in other countries, concluding that he had overcharged Caracas government for his own benefit. Yet wi…
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had raised the cost of doing business throughout Venezuela. Francisco Rodriguez, the economist and Maduro critic, therefore argued that the fact that any firm providing goods and services to Venezuelan government runs the risk of being accu…
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oil-for-food agreement with Caracas as evidence that the state and private entities alike faced major risks if they engaged in Venezuelan government, yet the firms in Mexico were not targeted. A second allegation consistently lobbed at Saab…
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alleging that Venezuelans' goal for food trade with Turkey has evolved into a multi-layer scheme built on a foundation of criminals and placed Saab at the center of the conspiracy. So as long as our tax dollars are feeding these people and …
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reaching a monthly height of just under $30 million in March 2021 alone. The surge began in March of 2018, shortly after Saab became involved in the Venezuela trade negotiations. Food products, including wheat flour and chocolate, made up t…
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between 2001 and 2013. Since Saab entered the picture, he had been credited with, or accused of, depending on who you talk to, stimulating ties between Caracas and Tehran to unprecedented heights, an act that would eventually rescue Venezue…
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deriding the socialist government endowed with the world's largest oil reserves for failing to provide fuel for its own citizens that they were causing. According to the mainstream narrative, Maduro had mismanaged his socialist policies and…
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on El Hashemi's head. That's their foreign minister, or their energy minister. They accused him of narco-trafficking for bringing oil to Venezuela. No man bore the brunt of Washington's economic war like Saab, however. He had set out for Te…
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U.S. officials initiated a plan to hinder his diplomatic efforts to feed and fuel Venezuela once and for all. On June 12, 2020, Maduro dispatched Saab on an official mission to Iran, where he was tasked for procuring medicine, food, and oth…
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Cape Verde, a routine excursion that did not require him to exit the plane or pass through immigration. They were just there for fuel. As Saab's aircraft refueled on the tarmac of the airport, Cape Verdean authorities suddenly demanded that…
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Cape Verde claimed to have detained Saab in compliance with an Interpol red notice seeking his arrest. Who put that Interpol red notice in the system? You're about to find out. Yet while Interpol did eventually post a red notice for Saab, i…
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After the arrest, Saab's legal team said, they were looking for a red notice to justify the arrest. Interpol's former director of legal affairs, a Dutch lawyer, Russel Martha, reinforced the legal team's view, asserting that the agency brea…
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Speaking to Nigerian media in January of 2021, Martha said that his own explanation for the discrepancies in the timing of Saab's arrest, alleging U.S. authorities only submitted a formal Interpol request for his detention after they learne…
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Martha pointed to the fact that the local authorities took multiple unnecessary steps designed to delay Saab's departure, trying to get the red notice put in the system, including forcing him to obtain a visa as evidence that Washington had…
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There was no red notice from Interpol, nor were there an arrest warrant from Cape Verde. This makes his arrest arbitrary and illegal, an ex-Interpol chief said. Noting the agency's red notice protocol is not instantaneous and would have req…
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which never happened. Cape Verde was acting on the orders of the U.S. government, Saab's attorney said. Their claims are further backed by media reports that a private jet owned by U.S. government contractors, Presidential Aviation, that's …
▶ 1:52:37
on a backdated Interpol. Because, of course, if you look up that guy, you're going to find he's the guy that convicted Alex Saab. And we've already went through that whole story. And that whole thing was a CIA operation. So, Illini, go ahea…