Rubio Says U.S. Ready to Use Force to Ensure Venezuela’s Cooperation

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told U.S. Senators that America is prepared to use force to ensure Venezuela’s “acting President” Delcy Rodríguez cooperates, Bloomberg reported.

“We are prepared to use force to ensure maximum cooperation if other methods fail,” Rubio reportedly said in a prepared statement for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “It is our hope that this will not prove necessary, but we will never shy away from our duty to the American people and our mission in this Hemisphere.”

Sec. Rubio will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday morning at a hearing on the United States’ policy towards Venezuela.

ABC News reports that Rubio will state that the U.S. is not at war with Venezuela and that the Venezuelan socialist