01/21/2009
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"The collapse of a once thriving modern country, a beacon of stability in our hemisphere, turned into a failed state, run into the ground by Maduro and his thugs."
"Three years ago, I walked out on the bridge at the Colombia-Venezuela border in Cucuta and I looked out at Venezuela and saw firsthand the misery and desperation in family after family forced to flee ..."
"Today, the situation is even more dire. Venezuela is the epicenter of the second largest refugee and migration crisis in the world."
"Last year, Senator Menendez and I introduced the Combatting Trafficking of Cuban Doctors Act of 2021 to strengthen U.S. efforts to stop this practice."