The whole foreign policy apparatus thinks everything is Libya, everything is Iraq, everything is Afghanistan. This is not the Middle East. And our mission here is very different. This is the Western Hemisphere. Within the Western Hemisphere, we have a country, potentially a very rich country, that has cozied itself up under the control of this regime, has cozied up to Iran, has cozied up to Hezbollah, has cozied, has allowed narco trafficking gangs to operate with impunity from their own territory, allows boats with drugs to traffic from their territory. And we are addressing, and by the way, 8, 9 million people and the largest mass migration event in modern history have left that country since 2014. (09:00–09:20)
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Asserts that Venezuela, under its current regime, has aligned with Iran and Hezbollah and allows drug trafficking operations.
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