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Marco Rubio: What you're seeing right now is an oil quarantine that allows us to exert tremendous leverage over what happens next.

On the recordJanuary 4, 2026
What you're seeing right now is an oil quarantine that allows us to exert tremendous leverage over what happens next.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Explaining U.S. leverage in Venezuela.

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