page_title: Leamsy Salazar
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Leamsy Salazar / Career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Partidarios del presidente Chávez celebrando su regreso.
context_page_description: Leamsy Villafaña José Salazar is an ex-lieutenant colonel in the Venezuelan Navy who was also the head of security details for Hugo Chávez and Diosdado Cabello. Salazar defected to the United States in December 2014 with the assistance of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration providing allegations of Diosdado Cabello heading an organization involved in international drug trade known as the Cartel of the Suns.
caption: Salazar, waving the Venezuelan flag following the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt
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