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Marco Rubio: “We already had 70 locally employed that sort of maintain…”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Testifies on Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 27:52

Laura Dog, who was our ambassador to Nicaragua in the past and to Honduras, will be taking over the VEN affairs unit first in Bogota but ultimately in Caracas. We've had a team on the ground already there. We already had 70 locally employed that sort of maintain that facility. But we have a team on the ground there assessing it. And we think very quickly we'll be able to open a US diplomatic presence on the ground which will … (27:52–27:57)

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Asserts that there are already 70 locally employed individuals maintaining a facility in Venezuela.

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