Editing Diosdado Cabello (section)

== Television program ==

Cabello has his own weekly program on [[Venezolana de Televisión]], ''[[Con El Mazo Dando|Con el Mazo Dando]]'' (Going at it with the Club).<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.conelmazodando.com.ve/| title = Program site| access-date = 21 June 2015| archive-date = 21 June 2015| archive-url = https://archive.today/20150621210923/http://www.conelmazodando.com.ve/| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelan-officials-suspected-of-turning-country-into-global-cocaine-hub-1431977784| title = Venezuelan officials suspected of turning the country into global cocaine hub (Wall Street Journal)| newspaper = WSJ}}</ref> In that program, Cabello talks about the government's view on many political issues and presents accusations against the opposition. The  [[Inter-American Commission on Human Rights]] (IACHR) has expressed concerns about how the program has intimidated people that went to the IACHR denouncing the government.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2015/032.asp| title = IACHR Expresses Alarm over Intimidation in Venezuela directed against People Who Come before the Inter-American Human Rights System (OAS press release)| date = August 2009}}</ref>
Some Venezuelan commentators have compared the use of illegally recorded private conversations on programs such as Cabello's to the practices in place in the [[East Germany]] as shown in the film [[The Life of Others]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.elnacional.com/marcelino_bisbal/vida_0_632336919.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150621004128/http://www.el-nacional.com/marcelino_bisbal/vida_0_632336919.html|url-status=dead|title=Página no encontrada|archivedate=21 June 2015}}</ref>

[[Amnesty International]] has denounced the way in which Cabello has revealed details on the travel
arrangements of two human rights defenders in his program and how he routinely shows state monitoring of people that may disagree with the government.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.amnestyusa.org/sites/default/files/uaa12315.pdf| title = Amnesty International report on TV program| access-date = 21 June 2015| archive-date = 21 June 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150621164807/http://www.amnestyusa.org/sites/default/files/uaa12315.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref>