Washington, January 16 (RHC)-- Protesters interruped the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, while Marco Rubio's confirmation hearing was being held as a candidate for Secretary of State, to denounce that the sanctions promoted by the Republican senator against Latin American countries that do not align with Washington's agenda, causing the death of children in those nations.

"Marco Rubio's sanctions are killing children in Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela," a woman is heard shouting, who was immediately removed from the room while trying to shout other complaints against who would be the Secretary of State of the next administration of Donald Trump, who will again assume the Presidency of the United States on Monday, January 20th.

Throughout his career as a senator, Rubio, a radical politician who opposes leftist governments in Latin America — especially those of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela — has been a frequent promoter of sanctions against those countries, especially measures that seek to suffocate the economies of those nations, which he describes as "dictatorships."

Rubio's Senate hearing joins that of other candidates proposed by Trump, who in both the upper house and the House of Representatives has a Republican majority, his party allies.

On Tuesday, the controversial candidate for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who is facing charges of alleged sexual abuse, appeared before the Senate.

[ SOURCE: teleSUR and PRENSA LATINA ]