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Ted Cruz: “Venezuela opening up our hemisphere to enemies of America…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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But I'M confident some of those Cubans are no longer with us. That's why President Trump went in there, because you had, number one, Venezuela flooding America with drugs. Number two, Venezuela opening up our hemisphere to enemies of America, China, Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, all posing acute national security threats to the United States. And so that's why we went in there. And also, Venezuela is an incredibly harmful force throughout Latin America, trying to spread communism, trying to spread, spread anti Americanism throughout Latin America. (29:15–29:28)

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Asserts that Venezuela is facilitating the presence of foreign adversaries in the Western Hemisphere.

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