THE LATEST ON WASHINGTON’S PROPOSED SANCTIONS AGAINST VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS

SENATOR MARC RUBIO, WHO IS CALLING FOR SANCTIONS AGAINST 27 VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, HAS A CREDIBILITY PROBLEM

Florida Senator Marc Rubio seems to be succeeding in putting pressure on the ever vacillating Obama administration to reconsider its opposition to further sanctions on the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro. Rubio is proposing a freeze on the financial assets of 27 government officials including the highly regarded Attorney General Luisa Ortega Díaz. Now in order to cater to right-wing Rubio in order to get congressional approval for Obama’s appointment of Anthony Blinken as Deputy Secretary of State, Blinken indicated to Rubio that he would be receptive to the proposal of sanctions on Venezuelan government officials. Previously, President Maduro called the sanctions nothing less than “stupid.”

The same Marc Rubio was caught with his pants down after he indicated that his parents came to the United States persecuted by the dictatorial Communist government of Fidel Castro. But the Washington Post discovered that Rubio’s parents arrived in the United States no less than two and a half years before Castro came to power in 1959. The dictator that Rubio’s parents were fleeing was none other than Fulgencio Batista. Do liars like Rubio deserve to be taken seriously?