By Dan Calabrese —— Bio and Archives February 12, 2018
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The Florida senator, who has been an outspoken critic of the government of President Nicolas Maduro, said on Twitter that the world would support the country's armed forces "if they decide to protect the people and restore democracy by removing a dictator." That tweet did not mention the Venezuelan president by name. But it came just before another one that said that soldiers eat out of garbage cans and their families go hungry while Maduro and his friends "live like kings" amid the economic collapse in the South American country. Later, he quoted the revered 18th century Venezuelan leader Simon Bolivar and the American Declaration of Independence in a flurry of tweets advocating the right to rise up against oppressive government. Rubio, a Florida Republican, represents thousands of people who moved to his state to escape crime, economic deprivation and unrest under Maduro and his predecessor, the late Hugo Chavez. The senator was the main driver of sanctions against top level officials for human rights abuses and ties to drug trafficking. He was also behind an Oval Office visit for the wife of detained opposition activist Leopoldo Lopez at the start of the Trump presidency.The evil of the Maduro regime goes well beyond even what Rubio has summarized here. They've completely looted and laid waste to the nation's rich oil resources, to the point where there is no longer even the capacity to drill the oil even if it would bring prosperity to the general population, which it would not. One of the country's few growth industries is kidnapping, which has forced Venezuelan major leaguers like Miguel Cabrera to pay protection money to keep his relatives safe.
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