Marco Rubio To Unsuccessfully Seek a New Interventionist Adventure in Venezuela
Marco Rubio. Photo: EFE
January 16, 2025 Hour: 2:51 pm
The U.S. politician proposes reconsidering Chevron’s License in this South American country.
On Wednesday, Republican Senator Marco Rubio presented his confirmation hearing as the next U.S. Secretary of State, a position he is expected to assume after Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20.
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Known as one of the most hostile U.S. politicians toward independent governments, he suggested that Washington should reconsider the oil licenses granted to energy companies to operate in Venezuela.
The next chief of U.S. diplomacy criticized President Joe Biden for negotiating with President Nicolas Maduro, whom Rubio baselessly accused of ‘fostering migratory flows’ toward the U.S.
Although the Biden administration reversed sanctions relief against Venezuela in April 2024, the transnational company Chevron continues to operate in this South American country thanks to an individual license.
During his presentation, Rubio also accused Russia of having a strong presence in Venezuela, even going so far as to suggest that “the Iranians are already starting to build drone factories.” This claim, too, was unsupported by any evidence.
Despite the barrage of threats and false information, “Rubio’s aggressive statement against Venezuela does not signal a shift in foreign policy toward Caracas under Trump 2.0,” said political analyst William Serafino.
“The next U.S. Secretary of State is not an organic politician within the MAGA universe. While this ideological current is more radicalized compared to Trump’s first term, it views Venezuela as a second- or third-tier issue,” he explained, and argued that Rubio is “a hawk by design” who generates mistrust even within the political bloc led by the future U.S. president.
“For Trump, revisiting the ‘Venezuelan swamp’ that the Guaido project represented and exposing himself to a new punitive interventionist adventure against Venezuela, as Rubio wants, would mean betraying everything he said during the campaign about the U.S. relationship with the world,” Serafino believes.
teleSUR/ JF Source: Mision Verdad
