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Secretary of State Marco Rubio controls Venezuela’s finances, making him the effective viceroy of the South American nation.
“Mr. Rubio has become the de facto viceroy of Venezuela, holding sway over a sovereign nation in a way that no American official has since Paul Bremer III arrived in Baghdad in 2003 to run US-occupied Iraq,” The New York Times reported on Saturday after speaking with several US and Venezuelan officials. “Mr. Rubio now effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government.”
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