Benjamin L. Cardin: “It empowers dictators and authoritarians, terrorists and criminals, all over the world.”

We think the United States has to work with our partners in South America to make it clear that that was not an election where Maduro won.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

I thank Senator Cardin for his leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.