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Later in the year, the US government banned all high ranking Venezuelan government officials from entering US territory.

Some figures of the Venezuelan government, like Vice-president Tareck el Aissami and minister of defense Vladimir Padrino López, were permanently banned from entering US territory, due to their involvement with human rights abuses and drug cartels. During the 2017 UN general assembly, UN ambassador Nikki Haley called Venezuela a global threat and a 'dangerous narco-state'. More recently, the Donald Trump administration labelled Venezuela a 'rogue state' due to its gross human rights violations, economic collapse and rampant excess deaths, anti-American stances and its reported involvement in international drug trafficking. While four of the listed countries met all these conditions, Cuba, though known from repressing it citizens and its vocal criticism of the United States, was put on the list solely because of the political influence of the Cuban-American community and specifically that of the Cuban American National Foundation (pre-Jorge Mas Santos), whereas Syria and Pakistan avoided being added to the list because the United States hoped that Damascus could play a constructive role in the Arab-Israeli peace process, and because Washington had long maintained close relations with Islamabad-a vestige of the Cold War.

In theory, to be classified as a rogue state, a state had to do the following: seek to obtain weapons of mass destruction, support terrorism, and severely abuse its own citizens. He described these regimes as 'recalcitrant and outlaw states that not only choose to remain outside the family but also assault its basic values'.

National Security Advisor Anthony Lake labelled five nations as rogue states: North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Libya under Muammar Gaddafi, and Ba'athist Iraq. In the 1994 issue of Foreign Affairs, U.S. As early as July 1985, President Ronald Reagan stated that 'we are not going to tolerate … attacks from outlaw states by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich,' but it fell to the Clinton administration to elaborate on this concept.

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