Cabello revealed Marco Rubio's ties to the opioid crisis that left more than 500,000 dead in the United States

Published at: 29/10/2025 07:55 PM

On the night of Wednesday, October 29, Diosdado Cabello Rondón, assured that Marco Rubio, current Secretary of State of the United States (USA) and one of the most aggressive faces of American interventionism in Latin America, has once again justified military operations against Venezuela on the grounds of “stopping the fentanyl that poisons our people.”

This was stated in his Con El Mazo Dando program, while detailing that “his own legislative record reveals a monumental contradiction (...) Rubio co-sponsored the law that weakened the power of the DEA in the midst of the expansion of the opioid crisis, favoring the same pharmaceutical corporations that today profit from other people's pain.”

Cabello said that in 2016, Rubio supported the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act (S.483), approved with strong lobbying from the pharmaceutical industry. “This rule, which was denounced by the US newspaper, The Washington Post, raised the requirements so that the DEA could suspend the license of distributors suspected of flooding communities with millions of oxycodone pills and other opioids.”

He explained that “in practice, this law paralyzed the State's main tool against legal trafficking that caused more than half a million deaths due to overdose in the last decade.”

The Secretary General of the PSUV revealed that, according to the public records of OpenSecrets.org, Marco Rubio received nearly $400,000 in donations from the pharmaceutical industry in the 2015-2016 election cycle, the date on which that law was approved.

“That funding came from the same conglomerates that would later face multi-million dollar lawsuits for their role in the opioid epidemic. One of the drivers of the rule, Congressman Tom Marino, was forced to withdraw his nomination as Donald Trump's anti-drug czar after the lethal impact of his own law was revealed,” Cabello explained.

Mazo News Team