Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) issued a harsh statement on Wednesday
condemning comments that President Barack Obama made about Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez as “alarmingly naïve.”
In
an interview at the White House on Monday, Obama told Oscar Haza, a
Spanish-language broadcast anchor for Miami’s América TeVe, as reported by The Miami Herald:
“[O]verall my sense is that what Mr. Chávez has done over the last
several years has not had a serious national security impact on us.”
Here is Rubio’s full
statement: “It’s now disturbingly clear that President Obama has been
living under a rock when it comes to recognizing the national security
threat posed by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.
“Hugo Chavez is not only a threat to the Venezuelan people’s freedom
and democratic aspirations, he has also supported Iran’s regime in its
attempts to expand its intelligence network throughout the hemisphere,
facilitated money laundering activities that finance state sponsors of
terrorism and provided a safe haven for FARC narco-terrorists, among
many other actions. (Continues)
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