Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., often speaks harshly about thuggish dictators, contrasting their love for control and authority with America’s principles of liberty and self-governance. But the senator fell short of his professed ideals this week with a particularly ugly response to a video of a Turkish restaurateur hosting Venezuelan tyrant Nicolas Maduro.
Maduro’s country is suffering from severe food shortages due to his misgovernment. He lives in comfort amid this and even subsidizes Cuba’s communist regime, all the while causing one of the world’s worst current humanitarian crises, if not the worst, in a nation that was once prosperous. Sixty-four percent of Venezuelans have “reported losing significant amounts of weight, 11kg (24lbs) on average, amid worsening food shortages,” according to the BBC. “Child malnutrition is at record levels and 2.3 million people have left the country since 2014.”So yes, people might be angry to see him.
