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By John Zmirak, The Stream, December 9, 2025
John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.
In a second extraordinary journalistic scoop, The Dallas Express released another letter from a former high-ranking official of the Venezuelan regime that President Donald Trump is trying to topple — partly to stop massive drug imports to the U.S., and partly to obtain hard proof of massive election fraud in America, using software originating in Caracas that has corrupted U.S. votes for almost 20 years. The letter reads, in part:
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, aPer 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….
