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Reading aloud from a purported letter from a supporter on his state television program this week, Venezuela’s ruling party heavyweight and Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello shared a line that Caracas could “recover Trinidad.”

The letter, read by Cabello during his ‘Con el Mazo Dado’ weekly television show purports to be authored by the persona ‘Patriota Patricio Marachucho’-a figure from whom Cabello often reads letters- and suggests that US tensions in the Caribbean could be leveraged to ‘recover’ the twin island state.

During his show, Cabello regularly reads "letters" from anonymous "patriotas" (patriots) who claim to be leaking sensitive information. "Patricio Maracucho" is one of these.