Kingston, Jamaica – Wedding Countries from the Caribbean from their dependence in Venezuelan oil and the fight against illegal immigration, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this week, as Trump administration focuses on the Western Hemisphere.
The State Department He said Rubio, who arrived in Jamaica on Wednesday, will encourage the region to diversify their energy supplies. Rubio will also visit Guyana and Suriname, his visit only comes days after the US president Donald Trump They announced new sanctions on oil export in Venezuelan oil and threatening tariffs On all goods imported into the United States by other countries that purchase oil from Venezuela.
The second main question for Rubio will be the situation in Haiti, where the moonfoot is a multinational peace force fighting to prevent gangs to take the country. Rubio spoke on Tuesday with the president of Kenya, who leads that force, although the state department at the call did not refer to Haiti.
“The challenge, obviously is Haiti,” Mauricio Claver-Caron said, Trump’s special envoy for Western Hemisphere. “And obviously, we all know and share a deep commit to solve this challenge in Haiti.”
But in the conference call with reporters on Tuesday, he did not offer details about what Republican former Florida Senator would suggest on Haiti policies. Rubio expanded waivers on the overall American foreign help freeze to continue financing security forces in Haiti, but it remains unclear how long it will last.
“This journey will add an emergency in the urgent situation on the development and implementation of the Haiti in terms of Haiti to ensure that these gangs do not download, Port-au-Prince,” said Claver-Caron without elaboration.
Energy, he said, will be a top topic of conversation, while rubbing in the Caribbean.
“We are at the historical moment on the Caribbean for energy security, which was Achilles the fifth Caribbean for so long and its economic development with disproportionately high electricity and energy prices,” Claver-Caron said.
He said Rubi’s visit occurs at the time of “historical possibilities for energy safety in the Caribbean, which will improve the lives of people, improve the possibilities and relationships with the United States and what that means, and obviously will strengthen our neighbors, which we seek.”
Trump announced on Monday that they would tighten us from oil exports in Venezuelan oil and that 25% of the tariff on all goods will be made to import Venezuelan oil 2. April.
“The fact that now their countries – Guiana, Suriname – can also have a really outperforming Venezuela in their oil production and the neighbors there in the region is a great opportunity for Caribbean Caribbean,” Claver-Caron said.
He also suggested that the United States was ready to field issues of regional leaders about American sanctions in Cuba that target programs that doctors and nurses are sent to the region and elsewhere. U.S. officials said that the programs are reminiscent of organized trafficking in human beings because medical professionals do not pay directly.
Latin American leaders denied American sanctions saying to deprive their people from the accurately needed medical help, but Claver-Caron rejected those appeals and said Leucie Labor Squads, it would be a waste of time.
“If he decides to overshadow this journey with the Cuban doctor, it will be a lost opportunity, because again a huge opportunity is energy insurance, economic development that covered this area, and the biggest challenge we have Haiti,” he said.
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2025-03-26 19:02:00
