Chairman Mast and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch Issue Statement on the events in Venezuela

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch issued the following statement regarding the events in Venezuela.

“Nicolas Maduro has once again used violence to illegitimately cling to power and silence his political opponents. President Biden’s failure to address the crisis in Venezuela has only empowered Maduro’s corrupt thugs and left American interests unprotected. The Biden White House must immediately reimpose all sanctions lifted on Venezuela since November 2022 — no grace period, no excuses. The U.S. and our allies should rally member countries of the Organization of American States to sanction corrupt individuals in the Maduro regime, secure the release of Americans arbitrarily detained by the regime, work to persuade the European Union to increase economic and diplomatic pressure on the Maduro regime, and seek international cooperation in the arrest and extradition of Nicolas Maduro and the drug traffickers that keep him in power.”

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