We want to get the hostages out as soon as possible. For that to happen, there can't be a war going on in the middle of it.
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Rubio stresses the need for peace to facilitate the hostage release.
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The Trump administration, in partnership with Ecuador and President Daniel Noboa, will continue to protect our hemisphere by keeping illicit drugs off our streets and disrupting the revenue streams funding violent narcoterrorists.
Had there been an agreement, there would have been an end to the war, and that’s been the fundamental problem.
We are prepared to step forward and play a constructive role, if there’s one for us to play, in bringing the parties together and bringing that war to an end.
But I think the long-term solution really is to diversify their supplies and I know India has been talking to not just the United States, but in Venezuela, we’re working very closely to increase their production capacity.





