Venezuelan authorities issued Urgent Order 886, transferring management of the Inspectorate for the Control of Police Action to a senior SEBIN intelligence official, as reported by @maibortpetit in a post shared by @freddyzur on X between 10:16 a.m. and 11:46 a.m. UTC on January 21, 2026. The order nullifies independent oversight of police conduct, placing police forces under self-monitoring supervised by political intelligence and closing the circle of impunity, according to the @maibortpetit report cited by @freddyzur. This development coincides with Diosdado Cabello, a senior regime official, entering the crosshairs of the United States, as stated in the same report shared over the past 90 minutes. The action follows earlier US Coast Guard detention of the Russian shadow fleet tanker Sagitta transporting Venezuelan oil in the Caribbean Sea between 7:15 a.m. and 10:16 a.m. UTC, the seventh such seizure targeting sanctions evasion, according to a Tendar post on X.
