Marco Rubio Criticizes Biden’s Intention to Recognize Maduro as President of Venezuela
US Senator Marco Rubio. File photo.
US Senator Marco Rubio criticized the Biden administration for wanting to recognize the government of Nicolás Maduro as the legitimate government of Venezuela after the mid-term elections in the United States.
The Republican senator from Florida claimed that after the mid-term elections, to be held in November, Biden will recognize Nicolás Maduro as the president of Venezuela.
He also claimed that after the mid-term elections, the White House will look for a way to reestablish relations with the Cuban government.
“What you’re going to see after November is they’re going to say that the new Colombian government is asking us to reopen diplomatic recognition of the Maduro regime, so that’s what the US is going to do,” said Rubio. “And that’s what you’re going to see after the election,” said Marco Rubio.
He insisted that the Biden administration would argue that since Colombia recognizes Maduro as the president of Venezuela, the United States must do the same.
The senator claimed that members of US President Joe Biden’s cabinet are sympathizers of the “communist regimes” of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
“Sadly, in that building that’s behind me,” said Rubio, “there are people working at the National Security Council in this White House, who are against all the things that happened just two years ago. “They were against the additional sanctions on the regime in Cuba, they were against supporting the interim government in Venezuela, and against the sanctions against the Venezuelan government, they were against the sanctions that we put in place against Nicaragua, they were against all of these things. And these are the people that are running Western Hemispheric Affairs in the building behind us now.”
Washington Again Threatens Venezuela with Sanctions: President Maduro Couldn’t Care Less
Venezuela-US relations
Since the beginning of this year, several US delegations have arrived in Venezuela to meet with members of the national government.
Recently, Venezuelan Foreign Minister Carlos Faría said that it was the Biden administration that had approached Venezuela because they are interested in oil.
Faría agreed that Biden is waiting for the results of the mid-term elections to take the next step regarding Venezuela.
“They are waiting for the mid-term elections in the United States,” Faría told the press. “It is being said that President Biden is waiting for the elections to pass so that he can then, in a clearer way, direct the US relations with our government. We are waiting for that to happen.”
In this regard, he emphasized that President Maduro is ready for dialogue, to work through respectful dialogue with the opposition as well as with those countries that up to now have been hostile to his government.
(RedRadioVE) by Ana Perdigón
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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