Rubio Is Leading Pressure Campaign Against Venezuela

“For more than a decade in the Senate, Marco Rubio sought the ouster of Venezuela’s autocratic leader, Nicolás Maduro. Now as President Trump’s national security adviser, Rubio is finally getting his chance to squeeze the strongman,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Rubio has been the top official executing an aggressive Trump administration campaign that began as a counternarcotics operation but has expanded into a broad effort to use sanctions and the threat of military force to pressure Maduro… While Trump’s primary aim is to stop the flow of drugs into the U.S., the hope is that the pressure campaign will also convince Maduro he can no longer remain in power.”