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Marco Rubio: “The problem we face in the short term is they [Venezuela]…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testifies on Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 1:01:38

And the third is on the use of force. Yes. Okay. On the first one, the two traders. So here's the problem we faced. The problem we face in the short term is they [Venezuela] had no place to put oil. They were running out of storage capacity for their oil. We had to move that oil to market very quickly. The only way to move it to market very quickly is to plug into these two primary trade companies that could sell it in the open market. (1:01:38–1:01:45)

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Asserts that Venezuela faced a short-term problem of insufficient oil storage capacity.

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