"Rubio, 54, emerged Sunday as the administration's chief public voice on Venezuela, laying out hints of strategy after the US swooped into Caracas to remove President Nicolas Maduro and fly him to New York for trial. The US raid on Saturday suggests that the former US senator from Florida long one of the most vocal policymakers on Venezuela won out with his skepticism about negotiating with Maduro, whom the US considered an illegitimate president and accuses of narco-terrorism that killed Americans."
"There's a quarantine right now in which sanctioned oil shipments there's a boat, and that boat is under US sanctions, we go get a court order we will seize it, Rubio said on CBS's Face the Nation. That's a tremendous amount of leverage for the US to press for change in Venezuela, he said. It's a moment Rubio has been building toward since growing up in a Cuban exile community in Miami known for anti-communist and anti-authoritarian fervor."
A US operation removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and transported him to New York for trial. US policy now centers on using control over sanctioned Venezuelan oil shipments to pressure post-Maduro leadership to sever ties with Iran, Hezbollah, and Cuba, stop drug trafficking, and prevent oil revenues from aiding US adversaries. Seizing sanctioned vessels provides legal and economic leverage. The approach reflects a hawkish, exile-influenced perspective rooted in anti-communist and anti-authoritarian sentiment. Cuba has relied on cheap Venezuelan oil, and US officials described the Cuban government as a significant problem while declining to specify whether Cuba will be targeted next.
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