Here is Rubio’s full statement: “It’s now disturbingly clear that President Obama has been  living under a rock when it comes to recognizing the national security threat  posed by Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez.

“Hugo Chavez is not only a threat to the Venezuelan people’s freedom and  democratic aspirations, he has also supported Iran’s regime in its attempts to  expand its intelligence network throughout the hemisphere, facilitated money  laundering activities that finance state sponsors of terrorism and provided a  safe haven for FARC narco-terrorists, among many other actions.

“Just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal detailed how Hugo Chavez circumvents  U.S. and EU sanctions to help prop up the Assad regime in Syria.  And even Obama’s own State Department belatedly but rightly expelled Chavez’s  consul general in Miami for her ties to a plan to wage cyber-attacks on the  U.S.