"Well, first of all, what's going to happen here is that we have a quarantine on their oil, Rubio said. That means their economy will not be able to move forward until the conditions that are in the national interest of the United States and the interest of the Venezuelan people are met. And that's what we intend to do. So, that leverage remains. That leverage is ongoing. And we expect that it's going to lead to results here."
"We will no longer have, hopefully, as we move forward here, we'll set the condition so that we no longer have in our hemisphere a Venezuela that's the crossroads for many of our adversaries around the world, including Iran and Hezbollah is no longer sending us drug gangs, is no longer sending us drug boats, is no longer a narco-trafficking paradise for all those drugs coming out of Colombia to go through into the Caribbean and towards the United States."
"That, and obviously, we want a better future for the people of Venezuela. We want them to have an oil industry where the wealth is goes to the people, not to a handful of corrupt individuals and stolen by pirates all over the world. That's what we're working towards, and we intend to use the leverage we have to help achieve that."
Marco Rubio described a plan to impose a quarantine on Venezuelan oil to prevent the country's economy from moving forward until specified conditions are met. The oil quarantine is presented as leverage to pressure for outcomes that serve U.S. national interests and the interests of the Venezuelan people. Objectives include preventing Venezuela from serving as a crossroads for adversaries such as Iran and Hezbollah, stopping drug gangs, drug boats, and narco-trafficking, and restoring oil wealth to Venezuelan citizens rather than corrupt elites. Legal authority for U.S. governance of Venezuela was not clearly articulated during the exchange.
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