Benjamin L. Cardin: “I believe it is the case that you have not sent yet instruction to all our embassies in the Hemisphere asking them to…”

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.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

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

I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.