What the regime has done is they have taken oil, which belongs to the people of Venezuela.
Marco Rubio: “What the regime has done is they have taken oil, which belongs to the people of Venezuela.”
On the recordJuly 18, 2017
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Rubio criticizes the Venezuelan regime for misusing national oil resources.
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