During a press conference alongside Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente Ramírez on Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke about strikes on drug boats.
00:00Some other leaders in this hemisphere, quite apart from President, Mr. Maduro, share. Thank you.
00:07Well, first of all, let me say that from an operational standpoint, I'll leave it to the Pentagon to identify munitions, units, and things of that nature.
00:14Let me say this. The United States has long, for many, many years, established intelligence that allow us to interdict and stop drug boats.
00:23And we did that. And it doesn't work. Interdiction doesn't work because these drug cartels, what they do is they know they're going to lose,
00:29you know, 2% of their cargo. They bake it into their economics. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them.
00:38So they were designated as what they are. They are narco-terrorist organizations.
00:42So the same information and the same intelligence mechanisms with maybe a higher focus was used to determine that a drug boat was headed towards eventually the United States.
00:51And instead of interdicting it on the President's orders, he blew it up. And it'll happen again.
00:58Maybe it's happening right now. I don't know. But the point is, the President of the United States is going to wait.
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