Marco Rubio Jabs Obama for Administration Meeting with Venezuelan Leader Suspected of Drug Trafficking

From his perch as the chairman of the U.S. Senate Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., fired away at President Barack Obama after administration members met with Diosdado Cabello, who leads Venezuela’s National Assembly, over the weekend. Cabello is being investigated by the U.S. government for drug trafficking.

 
“‎By meeting with the Venezuelan regime's most corrupt official, who also happens to be under investigation as a drug kingpin, the Obama administration‎ is sending a bizarre and confusing message to the Venezuelan people as well as U.S. prosecutors investigating him,” Rubio said on Monday. “Instead of legitimizing Diosdado Cabello, the Obama administration should implement sanctions against him for his key role in human rights violations, as it continues its drug trafficking investigation.
 
“These mixed messages from the Obama administration are especially appalling at a time when Leopoldo Lopez and other brave Venezuelan political prisoners are waging a hunger strike against the regime of Nicolas Maduro ‎for its ongoing violations of human rights,” Rubio added.