"The secretary of state is Trump's key figure in foreign policy, already holding the three top diplomatic posts in Washington (he is also national security advisor and administrator of what remains of USAID, the federal development agency). Now he assumes a fourth, and perhaps the riskiest: coordinating the U.S. response in Venezuela. Rubio was the main architect of the increasingly tight encirclement of the Chavista leader over the past six months. He also closely followed the development of the military operation in and around Caracas."
"On Saturday, at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida to announce the capture of the Venezuelan president, Trump revealed that Rubio had already been in contact with the new leader of the South American country, Delcy Rodriguez, holding a very long conversation, and that he had just conveyed to the Chavista vice president Washington's demands access to oil, the arrest of criminal gangs, an end to drug trafficking, and an end to collaboration with regimes hostile to the United States"
"Rubio will maintain that prominent role. He will be part of the president's four trusted advisors tasked with remotely overseeing the Venezuelan government's actions. This quartet is completed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, and the White House Deputy Chief of Staff and advisor for domestic policy, Stephen Miller, the author of the administration's anti-immigrant strategy."
Marco Rubio serves as secretary of state and now coordinates the U.S. response to Venezuela, assuming a fourth major role beyond other diplomatic posts. He led a tightening encirclement of Nicolas Maduro over six months and monitored the military operation in and around Caracas. Rubio contacted Delcy Rodriguez and relayed Washington's demands: access to oil, arrests of criminal gangs, an end to drug trafficking, and cessation of cooperation with regimes hostile to the United States. Rubio remains a prominent advisor within a quartet that includes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Stephen Miller, overseeing Venezuelan government actions.
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