Salazar, Risch, and McCaul: Biden Must Reinstate Sanctions on Murderous Maduro Regime

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) released the following statement on the Maduro regime’s backtracking on its commitments to the Biden Administration last October:

“Maduro has once again broken his commitments to the Biden Administration. The disqualification of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and other ongoing arrests of the Venezuelan opposition run counter to the regime’s promises.

“It’s past time the Biden Administration hold Maduro accountable. It must immediately reinstate all sanctions removed since October 2022, urge the European Union and other regional partners in the Western Hemisphere to match our sanctions, and seek international cooperation for the arrest and extradition of Nicolas Maduro. We must deny the Maduro regime the resources to commit gross violations of internationally recognized human rights and threaten regional and international peace.”

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