Mike Pence Calls for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to Go

PublishedFebruary 25, 2019

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I, too, greet all of my friends in this manner.

Here’s Mike Pence, just continuing the grand American tradition of destabilizing Latin America and posing for awkward photos. [CNN/Twitter]

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