We want to change the game in Venezuela, fix the country so it's a productive member of the Western Hemisphere, so it's an ally of the United States and a major supplier of oil to the world. But the old ways weren't working. This started, as everyone knows, with an oil blockade. right? They get money from two things, selling oil and selling drugs. And we ultimately want to cut off completely the selling drugs and grow the selling oil. (04:14–04:18)
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