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Marco Rubio: “We continue to reserve the right to take strikes against…”

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

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We are enforcing American laws with regards to oil sanctions. We have sanctioned entities. We go to court, we get a warrant, we seize those boats with oil, and that will continue. And We continue to reserve the right to take strikes against drug boats that are bringing drugs towards the United States. that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the Cartel de la Souls. Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel is now in US Custody and facing US justice in the Southern district of New York, and that's Nicolas Maduro. (00:38–00:45)

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Asserts that the U.S. reserves the right to strike drug boats heading to the U.S.

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