I do think the administration's approach to Venezuela has, quite frankly, been textbook.
Ultimately, the decisionmaking authority on this issue rests with the Department of Homeland Security.
This is a manmade crisis. This is not a natural disaster.
It is incumbent upon the Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago... to get--to be into Venezuela to discuss the various problems that exist.
Our goal in Cuba, ultimately, is the restoration of a democracy.
Nicaragua is a place that is not necessarily a model of democracy, but... the people of Nicaragua have begun to express how strongly they fe...
There is a real challenge to democracy. We see the world increasingly being divided into a battle between autocracy and democracy.
Cuba has not had democracy for a very long time. Venezuela has seen its democracy blatantly stolen.
As everyone knows, the Ranking Member has a deep interest in the western hemisphere, and many years of experience in defending democracy.
Venezuela poses a very significant national security threat to our strongest ally in South America in Colombia.
There are solutions and steps that can be taken and that we have called for, that the United States Government has called for that are simpl...