Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of not having a legitimate government and called the regime a “transshipment organization” to traffic drugs sourced in neighboring Colombia into other countries.
“The Maduro regime is not a legitimate government,” Rubio told Fox News host Sean Hannity during a Tuesday evening interview. “What it is is a transshipment organization. It allows cocaine and other drugs that are produced in Colombia to be trafficked through Venezuelan territory and—with the cooperation of elements of the regime—are allowed to … leave Venezuela on airplanes and ships headed towards the United States.”
He added that Maduro’s regime “is a source of instability in the entire region” and that 8 million Venezuelan nationals have fled “into neighboring countries as a result of the regime’s activities within their own country, including into the United States.”…