#Marco #Rubio is Trumpworld's biggest cheerleader for Latin American #regime #change,
helping torpedo the president's anti-interventionist campaign promise as if it were a narco boat off the South American coast.
On Saturday, Rubio looked on silently as Trump threatened #Colombian President #Gustavo #Petro to “watch his ass.”
When it was Rubio’s turn to take questions from reporters, he said #Cuban leaders “should be concerned"
and offered a warning to the rest of the world:
“Don’t play games with this president in office, because it’s not going to turn out well.”
In Latin America, few are more reviled than the #vendido
— the sellout.
Betraying one's country for personal or political gain is an original sin
dating back to the tribes who aligned with Spanish conquistadors to take down repressive empires, only to suffer the same sad end themselves.
Vendidos have dominated the region's history and stilted its development, with leaders
— Mexico's Porfirio Diaz,
the Somozas of Nicaragua,
Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic
— more than happy to side with the yanquis at the expense of their own countrymen.
Rubio belongs to this long, sordid lineup
— and in many ways, he’s the worst vendido of them all.
The thirst for power has a way of corrupting even the most idealistic hearts, alas.
Rubio ended up endorsing Trump in 2016,
supporting Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was rigged and proclaiming at the 2024 Republican National Convention that Trump
“has not just transformed our party, he has inspired a movement.”
Rubio’s reward for his boot-licking?
He sets our foreign policy agenda,
which is like putting an arsonist in charge of a fireworks stall.
I’m sure all of this comes off as leftist babble to the Venezuelan diaspora,
many of whom cheered Maduro's fate from Spain to Mexico, Miami to Los Angeles.
Only a deluded pendejo could support what Maduro wrought on Venezuela,
which was a prosperous country and a relatively stable U.S. ally for decades as the rest of South America teetered from one crisis to another.
But for Trump, toppling Maduro was never about the well-being of Venezuelans
or bringing democracy to their country;
it was about securing a foothold to flex American power and enrich the U.S.
Meanwhile, his deportation Leviathan has gobbled up tens of thousands of undocumented Venezuelans
and canceled the temporary protected status of hundreds of thousands more.
Back in 2022,
when Rubio was still a senator,
he advocated for Venezuelans to be eligible for temporary protected status,
which is granted to citizens of countries considered too dangerous to return to.
At the time, Rubio argued that
"failure to do so would result in a very real death sentence for countless Venezuelans who have fled their country."
Now?
At a May news conference,
he maintained that the 240 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador earlier in 2025
"were not migrants, these were criminals,"
-- even though the Deportation Data Project found that only 16% of them had criminal convictions.
Rubio has long fashioned himself as a modern-day Simón Bolívar,
the Venezuelan who led the liberation of South America from Spain
and who has been a hero to many Latinos ever since.
But even Bolívar knew to be skeptical of American hegemony,
writing in an 1829 letter that the U.S.
“seems destined by Providence to plague [Latin] America with miseries in the name of Freedom.”
Plague, thy name is Marco Rubio.
By pushing Trump to run rampant over Latin America,
you're setting in motion the same old song of U.S. meddling that ties your family and mine.
By letting Maduro's cronies remain in power if they play along with you and Trump,
even though they stole an election in 2024,
proves you're as much for the Venezuelan people as, well, Maduro.
Vendido.
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