Making decisions about timelines that have nothing to do with what is happening on the ground have been very detrimental to the region.
Marco Rubio
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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.
The second part of the announcement, though, where artificially we are deciding that you are going to step down over the next 2 years to zero is something that is unacceptable.
Let me move on to another issue. Of course, this has been mentioned a moment ago about what is going on with ISIL in Iraq and they are gaining in strengthen and so forth.
I was very concerned that there were people at the White House pushing for a zero number, and I know they were pushing.
By the way, these five operatives that were released were not just any five operatives.
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The nature of al-Qaeda has dramatically changed over the last number of years.
What I am trying to put forward here is that we cannot continue to ignore that persecution of Christians is a leading motivator.
I would list 50 people, if I could, today but at least 23 people that today I wanted to share with you and everyone that I believe should be candidates for sanctions.
It is never the wrong time to condemn and sanction individuals responsible for grotesque human rights violations.
This is about punishing and shaming individuals responsible for human rights violations.
What kind of dialogue is that where the people that are involved in the dialogue cannot tell you what they really believe? That is a fake dialogue.
This is not a United States-Venezuela issue. This is for the Venezuelan people to decide what they want to do with the future of their politics.
So is it the policy now of the United States that as long as this dialogue is somewhat successful, we are going to forget the human rights violations?
I can surely expect that on May 11, the pro-Russian elements will win that referendum fraudulently because they control all of this.





