AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Rubio condemns leftist governments across Latin America during Ecuador visit
Secretary of State Marco Rubio used an official stop in Quito to deliver a blunt indictment of left-wing governance across the Western Hemisphere, naming Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Colombia as countries left worse off by leftist leadership, and warning that the criminal networks those governments enabled now threaten the United States. Rubio spoke to […] The post Rubio condemns leftist governments across Latin America during Ecuador visit appeared first on American Almanac .
Secretary of State Marco Rubio used an official stop in Quito to deliver a blunt indictment of left-wing governance across the Western Hemisphere, naming Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and Colombia as countries left worse off by leftist leadership, and warning that the criminal networks those governments enabled now threaten the United States. Rubio spoke to reporters in the Ecuadorian capital on Wednesday during a meeting with President Daniel Noboa, part of a broader diplomatic tour that also includes stops in Colombia and Peru. Speaking first in Spanish and then switching to English, the secretary laid out what he described as a pattern of leftist movements collaborating with transnational criminal organizations, a pattern he…Open