Venezuelans, who actually know what’s been going on in their country are hopping mad about the recent article in The New York Times. On Sunday, several refugees, like Germania Rodríguez took to social media to rail about the recent puff piece on Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, complete with a fashion photo of her, all glammed-up.
Germania’s claims about Delcy’s overt Sadism point to something Satanic going on in the regime, echoed by the findings of Patrick Byrne, who reported that the Cartel de los Soles members rape each others’ wives in front of them, to keep each other in line.
Germania Rodríguez: The New York Times is back at it, spreading misinformation about what’s really going on in Venezuela. Not only did The New York Times travel to Venezuela to offer Delcy Rodríguez a glamorous photo shoot, they are now calling her a “moderate” because she lived in France and speaks French and is supposedly friendly to open markets. That’s just a straight-up lie!
So to be clear, Delcy Rodríguez is one of the most radical figures in the Venezuelan regime and central to the repression against Venezuelans today. Delcy Rodríguez is a true ideologue. Her father was a communist guerrillero who kidnapped an American businessman and was eventually killed by government forces.
Delcy herself has said on national Venezuelan TV that she is moved by her need for revenge against the Venezuelan people and the United States. She said that today’s dictatorship is her quote, “personal revenge”. Well, that revenge has caused the largest displacement crisis in the history of the Western Hemisphere!
Delcy is known as the chief of torture in Venezuela as she personally rules over the regime’s Gestapo-like police forces. Countless political prisoners have died while imprisoned after being prosecuted by Delcy herself, the “moderate”. Delcy oversees El Helicoide, which is known as Latin America’s biggest torture center.
Several political prisoners have said that Delcy personally watched as they were tortured by the regime’s forces for opposing Maduro. She promoted something that’s called the Law Against Hate, which is a tool for the regime’s forces to kidnap, jail and disappear anyone who dares speak against the Regime, even if it’s just on personal private messages on their cell phones.
The day following The New York Times’ report, The Dallas Express newspaper released a second bombshell letter from a second former high-ranking member of the Venezuela’s Chavista regime addressed to President Trump and the People of the United States, following their release last week of an open letter from Venezuela’s former intelligence chief, Hugo Carvajal.
In this letter, former Major General Cliver Alcalá describes the structure of the transnational crime cartel that is the Venezuelan government and he corroborates Patrick Byrne’s assertions last December that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and her brother Jorge are the architects and the controllers of the Cártel de los Soles and Tren de Aragua.
As an indication of how corrupt they are, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Special Presidential Envoy Ric Grenell have been calling for Delcy Rodríguez to replace Maduro – when she is Maduro’s boss!
Alcalá’s letter comes just days after another high-ranking Venezuelan official, former military intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal sent a separate letter. The men served in different branches of Venezuela’s national security structure and both are now imprisoned in the United States for separate narcoterrorism convictions.
Key points in General Cliver Alcalá’s open letter include:
• Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez cultivate a low public profile but they are the true Machiavellian masterminds behind Cartel de los Soles and they are the real controllers of Nicolás Maduro and Diosdado Cabello. The regime’s survival is largely due to these two individuals.
• After Chávez’s death in 2013 and Nicolás Maduro’s assumption of power, Alcalá retired because it was very clear to him that a criminal gang leader was taking power and he became a staunch public opponent of Maduro.
• Corrupt union leaders linked to a Chinese-funded Aragua-Carabobo railway project are part of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang.
• Smartmatic voting systems to alter election results in countries outside Venezuela, including the US and the controllers of this entire system are the siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez.
• Maduro deepened Venezuela’s cooperation with Iran and managed relations with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah for decades, since he was Hugo Chavez’s foreign minister.
• There have been close ties between Venezuelan top power player, Nicolás Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, Jorge Rodríguez, Delcy Rodríguez and American congressmen. Maduro and his accomplices are said to have boasted about the supposed control they exercised over these congressmen.
This is the letter from retired General Cliver Alcalá, republished verbatim (emphases, mine):
Date: 8 December 2025
To: The President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald J. Trump, and the American people.
From: Major General Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones
Subject: Information of interest for the national security and foreign policy of the United States
Mr. President and citizens of the United States of America:
My name is Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones, retired Major General of the Bolivarian Armed Forces of Venezuela. I address you with respect and in a spirit of cooperation to share information that I consider relevant to the national security of the United States and to the understanding of criminal and political dynamics in my country that extend beyond its borders. I have been detained in the United States since March 2020, after voluntarily surrendering to agents of this country while in Colombian territory. I am currently held in a federal correctional facility in the state of Maryland, serving sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of having provided assistance to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). By following direct orders from my then-superior Hugo Chávez, I committed a huge mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life.
Today, I wish to provide information about the criminal structure that dictatorially governs Venezuela, currently known publicly as the Cartel de los Soles. Two key figures in this entire criminal network are the siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez. With a deliberately low and calculated public profile, they are the true Machiavellian masterminds behind the leaders of the cartels corporation known as the Cartel de los Soles. They are the real controllers of Nicolás Maduro and Diosdado Cabello. The regime’s survival in power is largely due to these two individuals.
Delcy Rodríguez is the current vice president of the country, and her brother Jorge Rodríguez is the current president of the National Assembly of Venezuela.
Tren de Aragua
I served in my country’s army for 34 years. In 2011, while stationed in the state of Aragua, I led the military takeover of Tocorón prison. Despite political pressure from some members of the Venezuelan government to prevent the operation, I carried it out and took military control of the facility, resulting in the deaths of 16 criminals. The leaders of the criminal group now known as Tren de Aragua were being held in that prison. The then-Minister of Sports, Antonio Enrique Álvarez Cisneros—better known as “Potro” Ávarez—was sent by Chávez to have direct contact and coordinate the criminal leaders in those prisons.
After Chávez’s death in 2013 and Nicolás Maduro’s assumption of power, I requested my retirement from the army despite offers to continue, because I was unwilling to serve under his command. It was very clear to me that a criminal gang leader was taking power. From that moment on, it became public knowledge that I became a staunch opponent of the dictator Maduro.
With his political consolidation, the prison-based criminal structures were strengthened under his control: there were direct communications from the prisons to him, with Potro Álvarez acting as the facilitator of links with prison leaders; instructions were even given to those leaders to control inmates’ votes in elections, while criminals came and went to commit crimes and the prisons functioned as weapons and other illegal elements’ depots.
Some of those criminals—including corrupt union leaders linked to a Chinese-funded Aragua– Carabobo railway project—form part of the group now known as Tren de Aragua, which has been used by Maduro for his criminal purposes ever since.
Nicolás Maduro, trained and educated in Cuba, used these criminal schemes from the prisons for personal gain, replicating practices he learned in that country. Nicolás Maduro’s government exported this criminal organization to other countries, including the United States of America.
Electoral Frauds
In the electoral sphere, Army General Carlos Quintero—a member of Venezuelan military intelligence—and current vice president of the National Electoral Council (CNE) has been responsible for committing electoral fraud. General Quintero was the engineer in charge of Venezuela’s Smartmatic electoral technology used to carry out the frauds. Most elections in Venezuela have been manipulated by Maduro’s government. I am aware of the use of parallel Smartmatic voting systems to alter results, especially in locations without opposition party representatives, making irregularities difficult to detect. This is the same technology used in other countries including USA by the company Smartmatic. The controllers of this entire system are the siblings Jorge and Delcy Rodríguez.
Relations with Iran
Regarding Venezuelan foreign policy, the relationship with Iran has been historically close. Maduro deepened cooperation with Iran as a strategic partner for Venezuela. Maduro maintained and managed the most sensitive relations (IRGC and Hezbollah) with Iran since he was Hugo Chavez’s foreign minister.
Relations with the United States
In terms of intelligence and relations with the United States, there were close ties between the current supreme core of Venezuelan power (Nicolás Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, Jorge Rodríguez, Delcy Rodríguez) and American congressmen. Maduro and his accomplices boasted about the supposed control they exercised over these congressmen. I learned this information in 2007 when I was transferred to the state of Carabobo, where I met with several congressmen who were members of that group.
Drug Trafficking and Illegal Mining
Finally, drug trafficking and illegal mining, as two of the most important criminal activities of the Venezuelan regime in power. It was widely known that government leaders were involved in this criminal activity in various ways. I publicly accused Nicolás Maduro’s government of embezzling Venezuela’s minerals, including gold and diamonds, but also other rare strategic minerals, specifically in the region named Arco Minero del Orinoco. Nicolás Maduro even used his son to control the illegal activities in that geographic area. These were complementary criminal activities. Gold and diamonds served as a key commodities in the money-laundering mechanism of the drug trafficking carried out by what is now known as the Cartel de los Soles.
I am willing to testify about these and other matters within my personal knowledge that may be of interest to the government of the United States.
The government of the dictator Nicolás Maduro and his Cartel de los Soles undoubtedly represent a threat to the national security of the United States of America and other neighboring nations.
They are also, of course, responsible for having destroyed my beloved homeland.
I thank you for your attention and your determination in pursuing the restoration of democracy in Venezuela. It is public knowledge that I also attempted this more than once and put my life at risk for it, forcing me to live in exile in Colombia. Without a doubt, I would do it again. It is an unwavering commitment to my country and its constitution.
I remain at your disposal to collaborate broadly with your government, with the aim of contributing to the security and justice of your country and mine
Sincerely,
Cliver Antonio Alcalá Cordones
Date: December 8, 2025
Alcalá says he’s “willing to testify” about intelligence operations, electoral manipulation, criminal activity and foreign-policy relationships involving the Chavista regime’s ruling structure, which could affect the remainder of his sentence, should his cooperation provide substantial assistance.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Germania Rodríguez: The New York Times is back at it, spreading misinformation about what’s really going on in Venezuela. Not only did The New York Times travel to Venezuela to offer Delcy Rodríguez a glamorous photo shoot, they are now calling her a moderate because she lived in France and speaks French and is supposedly friendly to open markets. That’s just a straight-up lie.
So to be clear, Delcy Rodríguez is one of the most radical figures in the Venezuelan regime and central to the repression against Venezuelans today. Delcy Rodríguez is a true ideologue. Her father was a communist guerrillero who kidnapped an American businessman and was eventually killed by government forces.
Delcy herself has said on national Venezuelan TV that she is moved by her need for revenge against the Venezuelan people and the United States. She said that today’s dictatorship is her quote, “personal revenge”. Well, that revenge has caused the largest displacement crisis in the history of the Western Hemisphere!
Delcy is known as the chief of torture in Venezuela as she personally rules over the regime’s Gestapo-like police forces. Countless political prisoners have died while imprisoned after being prosecuted by Delcy herself, the “moderate”. Delcy oversees El Helicoide, which is known as Latin America’s biggest torture center.
Several political prisoners have said that Delcy personally watched as they were tortured by the regime’s forces for opposing Maduro. She promoted something that’s called the Law Against Hate, which is a tool for the regime’s forces to kidnap, jail and disappear anyone who dares speak against the Regime, even if it’s just on personal private messages on their cell phones.
Delcy is so radical and evil that even Chavez’s main American propagandist, Eva Gollinger has an issue with The New York Times continued depiction of her as a moderate.
Gollinger has been writing to The New York Times, saying that Delcy is “too radical”. Imagine that.
Now, I do not think that The New York Times is pro-Maduro or communist. I think that they are being careless and ignorant in their reporting and they are falling for the regime’s lobbying for their own survival. They are also just not listening to Venezuelans’ voices. It’s likely The New York Times thinks that this is the best way to avoid a war without realizing that the Chavista regime has been unleashing war on 28 million unarmed people for over 20 years.
Venezuelans are asking The New York Times to please stop helping our torturers – and most importantly – stop promoting the radical ideologues that destroyed our country and unleashed a crisis like no other in our hemisphere.
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