US EditionBloomberg: Rubio Will Play a Key Role in the Governance of Venezuela
Marco Rubio leads a small committee advising President Trump on managing Venezuela’s transition after Maduro's removal amid sanctions and a financial crisis.
- Leading a small, president-engaged committee, Marco Rubio, U.S. secretary of state, will manage Venezuela's post-Maduro transition after Saturday's ouster and extradition of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores.
- Rubio's decades-long focus on Latin American socialist governments explains Trump and Rubio's view of Venezuela as a key lifeline to Cuba, targeting its regime to sever that tie and secure oil.
- A small working group around Marco Rubio includes Stephen Miller, Dan Caine, Pete Hegseth, and John Ratcliffe, while Rubio uses Spanish diplomacy and may call Delcy Rodríguez daily amid Venezuela's crisis.
- The move effectively places the United States over Venezuela's oil-rich territory, and tough decisions remain about when to call free and fair elections and lift sanctions.
- Critics warned of legal and political backlash, with Juan Gonzalez saying 'This could come home to haunt them in the midterms and really blow up in their face', while major Chavista figures remain untouched and a Rubio ally said 'This isn't de-Baathification'.
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The Viceroy of Venezuela
“Marco Rubio has held many titles during Donald Trump’s presidency. He may have just acquired his most challenging one yet: Viceroy of Venezuela,” the Washington Post reports. “The secretary of state, national security adviser, acting archivist and administrator of the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International Development was central to masterminding the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday.” “But with no immediate successo…
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