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Official portrait of U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio - Wikimedia
NSS on Drugs
The National Security Strategy 2025 was published on December 5, and mentions drugs on page 11 (NSS 2025):
We must protect our country from invasion, not just from unchecked migration but from cross-border threats such as terrorism, drugs, espionage, and human trafficking. A border controlled by the will of the American people as implemented by their government is fundamental to the survival of the United States as a sovereign republic.
Maureen Tkacik
On December 23, The America Prospect Magazine published Maureen Tkacik’s article (Tkacik 2025).
A few weeks later, on January 11, 2026, Tkacik talked with Chris Hedges and the transcript of the interview was published by the Brave New Europe magazine (Hedges 2026).
The fact that Marco Rubio’s brother in law Orlando Cicilia wwent to prison for 12 years for drug trafficking has been reported before (Roig-Franzia 2015).
Tkacik goes beyond Cicila to the head of the gang Guillermo Tabraue and to the Cuban anti-communist Bay of Pigs veteran and drug-trafficking with CIA milieu. She writes (Tkacik 2025):
On the tenth week of Guillermo Tabraue’s 1989 criminal trial, a man named Gary Mattocks showed up at the courthouse and testified that he’d been Guillermo Tabraue’s handler for four years at the CIA’s DEACON project inside the DEA. Mattocks had previously been the liaison of Sandinista defector Edén Pastora, a prolific Contra trafficker based in Costa Rica; both had been present during Barry Seal’s sting operation. It was rumored George Bush himself had personally ordered Mattocks to disrupt the proceeding.
This is the environment that Marco Rubio grew up into and it seems it has influenced his politics and his views about foreign policy.
Rubio’s foreign entanglements
From (Tkacik 2025):
Ecuador
In September, Rubio hailed Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa, who leads a country whose homicide rate has risen eightfold since 2016, as an “incredibly willing partner” who “has done more just in the last couple years to take the fight to these narco-terrorists and these threats to the security and stability of Ecuador than any previous administration.” Just five months earlier, a damning investigation revealed that Noboa’s family fruit business had trafficked 700 kilos of cocaine to Europe in banana crates between 2020 and 2022.
Daniel Noboa’s family business, President of Ecuador, is involved in cocaine trafficking to Europe https://archive.ph/ZYYe1
Comment: Given the extensive presence of the Albanian mafia in Ecuador, additional ‘exciting’ linkages should be explored.
Chile
Rubio has been one of the Beltway’s biggest backers of newly elected Chilean president José Antonio Kast, the son of a literal Nazi war criminal who has spent his entire political career lionizing, whitewashing, and promising a restoration of the brutal reign of Augusto Pinochet, who personally ordered the Chilean army to build a cocaine laboratory, consolidated the narcotics trade inside his terrifying secret police, and then allegedly “disappeared” key conspirators like his secret police chemist Eugenio Berríos.
From (Blanch 2026):
Honduras
To reaffirm his narco-corrupt “vocation,” he influenced Trump to recently pardon drug trafficker and former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was imprisoned in the United States with a final sentence of 45 years, imposed by judges in the Southern District of New York, for the crime of exporting and introducing 400 tons of cocaine into U.S. territory.
After his release, and following international condemnation of Hernández’s acquittal, Trump himself stated that he did not know or have much knowledge of who this man really was. Of course, Rubio knew him well, because, as the Canadian magazine Vice reports, he received more than $600,000 to fund his election campaigns through the BGR Group. Then-Senator Rubio arrived in Honduras in 2018, had his picture taken, hugged Hernández, and, at a press conference in Tegucigalpa, praised the president “for his fight against drug trafficking.” The BGR Group was hired to clean up the former president’s image in New York.
Venezuela
Rubio’s relationship with former federal congressman David Rivera also has a long history of corruption and money laundering. The two bought a house in Tallahassee to coordinate their misdeeds and helped steal the Venezuelan company Citgo, a subsidiary of PDVSA in the United States, which was handed over to the “ghost president” Juan Guaidó. Rivera was arrested in December 2022 and acquitted the next day, as is always the case in Miami with wealthy criminals.
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Marco Rubio with Juan Guaido - 2022 - Wikimedia
What’s the end game in Latin America?
(Tkacik 2025) says:
Today, Marco Rubio is the Trump administration’s most formidable liar. … But Rubio’s approval ratings are the highest in the Republican Party, even as he is the architect of what is arguably Trump’s single most cynical policy: the scheme to appoint drug cartel bosses and their cronies atop the governments of every Latin American country, in the name of fighting drug cartels.
Comment: If that pans out we should expect uncertainty to increase in Latin America and even more weak governments. That would open the field for people like Peter Thiel to push for projects like Prospera and Alex Karp to be there to provide security services.
Read Tkacik!
Sources
(NSS2025) National Security Strategy 2025 https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf PDF 33 pages - December 5, 2025
(Tkacik 2025) The Narco-Terrorist Elite: Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again? https://prospect.org/2025/12/23/narco-terrorist-elite-rubio-south-america-iran-contra/ By Maureen Tkacik - The American Prospect - December 23, 2025 - Archive https://archive.ph/TMw63
(Hedges 2026) Maureen Tkacik, Chris Hedges: The Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela https://braveneweurope.com/maureen-tkacik-chris-hedges-the-narco-trafficking-elite-set-to-run-venezuela Chris Hedges talks with Maureen Tkacik - BNE - January 11, 2026 - Archive https://archive.ph/uBHKY
(Roig-Franzia 2015) The drug-smuggling case that brought anguish to Marco Rubio’s family https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-drug-smuggling-ring-that-brought-anguish-tomarco-rubios-family/2015/12/12/473f3a2c-9db6-11e5-a3c5-c77f2cc5a43c_story.html By Manuel Roig-Franzia and Scott Higham - Washington Post - December 12, 2015 - Archive https://archive.ph/XP7PL
(Blanch 2026) The mythomaniac Marco Rubio: The U.S. Secretary of State epitomizes the moral crisis of the empire’s elites https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2026-01-08/the-mythomaniac-marco-rubio by Hedelberto López Blanch - Granma - January 8, 2026 - Archive https://archive.ph/4ukZ3
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