Javier Bertucci, who is running as an independent, Washington went so far as to directly implicate Maduro in alleged drug-trade profiteering.

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Cabello, along with his wife, Marleny Josefina Contreras, and his brother, Jose David, were sanctioned on Friday after Washington accused them of running a "corruption network" based on illegal drug trade. In addition to the family trio, Rafael Alfredo Sarria Diaz was also placed on the sanctions list as Cabello's "front man."

"As of March 2017, Cabello seized drug loads from small-scale drug traffickers, and combined and exported them through a Venezuelan government-owned airport," the US Treasury said in a statement. "Cabello, along with President Maduro and others, divided proceeds from these narcotics shipments."

Besides drug trafficking, Cabello has also been accused of abusing his power and influence tothe German Robert Koch Institute, to name just a few. The coordination of various response capacity-building initiatives proved to be very challenging, and an International Interagency Ebola Communication Coordination Call (IIECCC) was set up that was chaired by the US CDC. The IPP contributed frequently to this interagency briefing and used other opportunities during meetings with specific agencies to share its approach and outcomes.

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