Roberta S. Jacobson: “Supporting human rights, democratic governance, and greater prosperity remains a fundamental U.S. objective throughout…”

The actions taken by the Venezuelan Government today do not support the efforts at the dialogue table.

The President's new approach makes clear that the United States can no longer be blamed as an obstacle to progress on such things as access to information or connecting Cubans to the world.

The principal human rights abuses were abridgement of the rights of citizens to change the government...

We have consistently called on the Venezuelan Government to release those it has unjustly jailed.