MENENDEZ, RUBIO INTRODUCE RESOLUTION DEPLORING
VIOLENCE IN VENEZUELA, CALLING FOR FULL ACCOUNTABILITY
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and U.S. Senators
Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Dick
Durbin (D-IL) today introduced a Senate Resolution (S.
Res. 365) deploring the violent
repression of peaceful demonstrations in Venezuela, calling
for full accountability for human rights violations, and supporting the right of the Venezuelan people to live freely and
democratically.
This action sends an unequivocal message by condemning the
violence perpetrated against
innocent Venezuelans by President Maduro, Venezuelan security forces, and armed pro-government supporters," said
Chairman Robert Menendez.
"Now is the time to pursue a
course of targeted sanctions
by denying and revoking visas,
and freezing the assets of Venezuelan officials complicit in
the