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On the recordOctober 21, 2021
Madam Speaker, for those who enable murderous dictators, the United States system will find you in this life or the next, and this is the perfect example. For Alex Saab, the plunderer of Venezuela, justice for his crimes against humanity will be swift and without mercy. Why? Because over the weekend we learned that Saab will finally be extradited to the United States. He tried to claim diplomatic immunity, but he is not a diplomat. He is not a politician. He is just another thug for the Venezuelan regime. Saab was Maduro's leading front man and his number one money launderer. He is a drug trafficker who is responsible for flooding American streets with cocaine. He helped finance the worst crimes and the most appalling human rights abuses committed by the Maduro regime in Venezuela in the last 15 years. So it is no surprise that Maduro, the dictator, has pulled out all the stops to try to prevent his extradition to the United States, but he could not. In the meantime, earlier this week, six American executives, American executives in Venezuela, known as the Citgo 6, were sent back to a cruel political prison for no reason. The regime arrested these men on bogus charges in 2020 with no justification. Now, with no explanation, Maduro has condemned these innocent American executives to rot in a Venezuelan prison. Why? Just one reason: retaliation because Maduro doesn't like this picture. This is a classic tactic of tyrants.…

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