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On the recordMay 7, 2014
How many more people have to be tortured? How many more have to be arrested? How many more have to be fired upon before we say, well, guess what, the process is not working?
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey

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Questions the effectiveness of dialogue amidst ongoing human rights abuses in Venezuela.

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