Benjamin L. Cardin: “I think it is absolutely essential that we be very clear that Maduro was not elected as president of Venezuela.”

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.

What you have done to strengthen the transatlantic partnership is incredible.

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.

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.