If we are successful in our efforts to promote democracy in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, and we intend to be, we will need to provide assistance that is qualitatively and quantitatively different than what we are providing at present to combat the repressive regimes that hold those countries hostage.
Kozak emphasizes the need for enhanced assistance to promote democracy in repressive regimes.
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The crisis in Venezuela is self-induced by the Maduro administration. The economic crisis results from years of bad economic decisions.
But for those who seek to maintain the status quo, we will not let them use our assistance as a facade for their lack of political will to make real reform.
We are standing with the call of the Nicaraguan people for early elections, as that seems to be the only available option for solving the crisis.