Far-right US Senator Marco Rubio (left) and Venezuelan Minister for the Interior Diosdado Cabello (right). Photo: X/@intelligencefnt/PSUV.
Marco Rubio, accused of having ties to drug trafficking, will be the first to be fired from Donald Trump’s government, either due to inefficiency or due to some scandal, predicted PSUV leader and Venezuelan Minister for the Interior Diosdado Cabello. He made this comment on Wednesday, November 7, on his program Con El Mazo Dando, referring to US President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of the ultraconservative Marco Rubio to head the US State Department.
“That guy has been attacking Venezuela for 25 years, and now I make a bet: who do you think will be the first to be fired from the Trump administration? I know who! That is easy, Narco Rubio,” Cabello commented, calling Rubio “Narco” for his alleged links to drug trafficking.
The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) also dismissed the far-right opposition’s campaign to intimidate Venezuelans with the arrival of Rubio to the State Department.
“Now the savior for these people is not Erik Prince but Narco Rubio,” he joked.
The Implications for Venezuela of Marco Rubio’s Appointment as US Secretary of State
Marco Rubio’s name is quite familiar in Venezuela, and not for positive reasons. Son of ultra-conservative Cuban emigrants, Rubio has made his career in the United States as an extremist voice against governments outside of Washington’s control, such as Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Iran, and China.
Rubio, born in 1971 in Miami, is considered a US foreign policy hawk, advocating a hardline approach against China and Iran, and the continuation of unilateral coercive measures against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. He participated in the primaries for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, where he lost to Trump.
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
OT/SC/DZ
