Tag: Marco Rubio

Tuesday, January 28th 2025 - 07:32 UTC
Like old friends, PM Starmer/Trump; and Lamy/Rubio agree to meet soon

Communication between British PM Keir Starmer cabinet and US President Donald Trump team seem very fluid, speaking like lifelong friends and buddies. That was what occurred on Monday when PM Starmer spoke to President Trump and on Sunday with Foreign Secretary David Lamy and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In both cases the leaders agreed to meet soon.
Thursday, January 23rd 2025 - 22:14 UTC
Rubio ratifies US recognition of González Urrutia as Venezuela's true President

Venezuelan opposition leaders were told by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that the Donald Trump administration would hold Edmundo González Urrutia as the truthful President of Venezuela following the controversial July 28, 2024, elections Nicolás Maduro claimed to have won based only on a declaration from the National Electoral Council (CNE) later upheld by the Supreme Court, both of which are under the control of the Chavista regime.
Monday, September 21st 2020 - 09:17 UTC
Florida Senators sponsor bill to resume cruise lines and ports operations

Florida State lawmakers have teamed up to introduce a bill that would allow cruise lines and ports to resume operations.
Thursday, February 16th 2017 - 11:54 UTC
Trump calls for the immediate liberation of Venezuela's Leopoldo López

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Venezuela to free jailed opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez “immediately,” posting a picture of himself and Vice President Mike Pence with Lopez's wife at the White House.
Thursday, March 3rd 2016 - 04:47 UTC
Republicans work out strategy to stop Trump in Ohio and Florida primaries

Following on Donald Trump's sweeping win on “super-Tuesday” Republican strategists are planning support for Ohio governor John Kasich so he can take his state presidential primary on 15 March and similarly with hopeful Senator Marco Rubio in his home state of Florida.
Wednesday, March 2nd 2016 - 23:46 UTC
Trump tsunami: Republican hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer to become Rubio's finance chairman

Paul Singer, the influential hedge fund billionaire from New York who endorsed Marco Rubio in October, is set to be named as his national finance chairman according to various US press reports. Singer is well known in Argentina for bringing a lawsuit against the government in the holdouts dispute.
Wednesday, November 4th 2015 - 07:41 UTC
Argentina defaulted bonds dispute pushed into the US Republicans' presidential campaign

One of the wealthiest and most influential Republican donors — who also happens to be in the midst of a legal battle with Argentina over defaulted-debt — is throwing his support behind the presidential campaign of US Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, according to a New York Times report.
Tuesday, April 14th 2015 - 11:29 UTC
Cuban-American Senator Rubio launches 2016 campaign for the White House

US Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio launched his presidential campaign at a rally on Monday in Miami, calling for a new era of American leadership that is not “stuck in the 20th century.”
Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:03 UTC
US Ambassador Mamet presents credentials and meets with Timerman

US ambassador to Argentina Noah B. Mamet held his first meeting with Foreign Minister Hector Timerman at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday afternoon after he arrived in Buenos Aires on Friday of last week.
Thursday, December 18th 2014 - 23:04 UTC
US sanctions against Venezuela officials signed into law

The United States will now be able to impose punitive measures on Venezuelan government officials involved in a crackdown on protesters against the Maduro administration, or on those who have carried out acts of violence or violated the human rights of political opponents.