Senior American officials are in Venezuela this weekend to meet with the government of Nicolás Maduro —marking another example of a geopolitical shift underway across the globe in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Senior American officials are in Venezuela this weekend to meet with the government of Nicolás Maduro, whose authoritarian rule of the oil-producing country has meant no formal diplomatic relations between the two countries since 2019.Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Multiple U.S. officials confirmed the trip is happening to CBS News. The White House and State Department declined formal comment.. That report prompted Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees and a vocal critic of the Maduro regime, to criticize the trip.
Rubio's active criticism of the Maduro regime and of the Cuban government through the years has resulted in occasional death threats against the senator, who's been known to travel with a Capitol Police security detail.
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