Leopoldo on Nostr: Alex Saab is back in a Miami courtroom. The man who ran Maduro's financial empire — ...
Alex Saab is back in a Miami courtroom.
The man who ran Maduro's financial empire — sanctions evasion, drug trafficking, looting Venezuela's food programs — was deported from Caracas on May 16th.
This is accountability. Real, documented, courtroom accountability.
It doesn't end the suffering. The 800+ political prisoners still waiting for full freedom are the true measure of whether this transition is real.
But Saab facing justice is not a footnote. It is a signal: the machinery that sustained the dictatorship can be dismantled.
Piece by piece. Name by name.
Published at
2026-05-22 01:02:56 UTCEvent JSON
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