President-elect Donald Trump plans to appoint Cuban-born senator Marco Rubio as head of United States diplomacy, The New York Times reported this Monday, specifying that the decision is not final.
This congressman from the state of Florida, hard-line but very knowledgeable about international issues, would be the first Latino to hold the position.
Rubio, vice president of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was in the pools as a possible running mate for Trump before he opted for JD Vance.
The New York newspaper, which cites three sources, specifies that the president-elect “could still change his mind at the last minute.”
If Rubio’s appointment as Secretary of State is confirmed, Trump would be winking at Latinos, an electorate in which he gained a lot of ground in last week’s presidential elections.
Critic of the Cuban government, Maduro and Ortega
In foreign policy, Rubio is in favor of exerting maximum pressure on China, a great power rival to the United States, and Iran and is in favor of ending the war between Ukraine and Russia.
He harshly criticizes the Castro government of Cuba, the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and the Nicaraguan Daniel Ortega.
The 53-year-old senator and Trump were rivals in the Republican primaries in 2016. At that time the relationship between the two was execrable and derogatory epithets were the order of the day.
Rubio said of Trump that he had “small hands” and called him a “conman.” The tycoon also made fun of him, with the nickname “little Marco.”
But in politics memory is short and apparently they have gone from enemies to allies.
The relationship improved during Trump’s first presidential term (2017-2021), with whom he worked on Latin American issues, and was a great support in the campaign to return to the White House, especially among the Latin electorate.
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