Albio Sires: “Thank you, Congressman. Thank you for all your passion and all your effort on behalf of those people who need it the…”

“Thank you, Congressman. Thank you for all your passion and all your effort on behalf of those people who need it the most, the people in Venezuela. Mr. Speaker, I would just like to end by saying, you know, I remember years ago when Spain went through 39 years of dictatorships in the Franco era. And one of the things that happened that was able to develop democracy in Spain was the fact that all the European countries got together and helped and assisted in developing a democracy in Spain. I think the same thing needs to happen in this region. {time} 2000 The countries of our Venezuela have to demand that Venezuela release its political prisoners, that it has free elections, and stop the human rights abuses. After all, it is in their best interest that a stable Venezuela is good for a stable region. Mr. Speaker, I thank very much my colleague, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, always for her passion on this issue. She is the little giant of human rights in this Congress. I thank her and my colleague, Mario Diaz- Balart.”