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Vladimir Padrino: Venezuela's military power broker

Summary by oilgasdaily.com
Caracas (AFP) Jan 27, 2026 Vladimir Padrino, the man who wields absolute control over Venezuela's powerful military, became a soldier entirely by chance. Named by his father after Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, Padrino was a high school pupil when a friend asked him to tag along to a Military Academy entrance exam. He told the friend he was "crazy," Padrino, now 62, recalled in a 2021 interview with state c
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oilgasdaily.com broke the news in on Thursday, January 29, 2026.
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