SLP, Mexico.- This Wednesday, the president-elect of the United States, donald trumpconfirmed that he will nominate Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio to serve as Secretary of State in his next administration.
Blond53, has been in the Senate since 2011 and is currently vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Intelligence and also serves on the chamber’s Foreign Relations Committee.
“Marco is a highly respected leader and a very powerful voice for freedom. “He will be a steadfast defender of our nation, a true friend to our allies and a fearless warrior who will never back down from our adversaries,” said Trump in a statement this Wednesday, as revealed in his grid social Truth social.
“I look forward to working with Marco to make America and the world safe and great again,” Trump highlighted in his statement.
As the newly elected president noted in his statement, during his first term, Senator Rubio experienced the “paralysis of Washington” and saw firsthand the communities “that the ruling class had left behind: towns and cities devastated by the loss of a decent work and corroded by a culture that had forgotten the need for faith, family and community.”
Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants and has stood out in the Senate for his strong positions on foreign policy. He has taken tough stances against China and Iran and has backed sanctions against the regimes of CubaVenezuela and Nicaragua. Currently, he is vice chairman of the Select Committee on Foreign Intelligence and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In an interview after Trump’s election victory, Rubio told cnn: “The world is changing rapidly. The adversaries are coming together… It’s going to require us to be very pragmatic and wise in how we invest abroad and what we do.”
Although Rubio and Trump clashed in the 2016 Republican primaries, calling each other derogatory nicknames, tensions seem to have dissipated. Rubio has been campaigning alongside Trump, especially at events aimed at Latino voters.
Rubio would take office in a complex international context. Among its challenges would be facilitating negotiations between Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict. “I am not on the side of Russia, but unfortunately the reality is that the war in Ukraine is going to end with a negotiated agreement,” Rubio said in an interview with NBC. “I want Ukraine to have more strength in that negotiation.”
He would be on the verge of becoming the highest-ranking person in a US administration.
