Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration won't allow the Western Hemisphere "to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals of the United States" following the capture of Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro.
The White House's website posted several quotes from Rubio throughout the day in which the official defended the actions conducted by the Trump administration, adding that the "first steps" following the operation are "securing what's in the national interest of the United States and also beneficial to the people of Venezuela, and those are the things that we're focused on right now."
