You take a country with enormous resources, but that's lacked rule of law, that's had crime Criminality, corruption and if you can stabilize the situation on the ground, it's a ripe area for American investment. But The move in Venezuela is also dominantly about national security. This is a country in our hemisphere that harbored the Hezbollah Western hemisphere with Iran, that had Russia, that had Cuban mercenaries in there to protect their leader that was propping up the Cuban dictatorship, selling the oil on the cheap to China. (02:42–02:46)
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Asserts that U.S. actions in Venezuela are primarily for national security reasons.
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