The U.S. government will officially be going after the assets of Venezuela’s President and resident socialist thug, Nicholas Maduro, after the Senate passed by voice vote Senator Marco Rubio’s Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014.
Rubio cosponsored the bill with Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), which will now go to a floor vote, and then on to President Barack Obama’s desk for him to sign.Obama has been reluctant to impose executive action sanctions against Maduro’s regime, so fingers will be crossed in hopes that the President does the right thing and signs the bill into law.
Here is Rubio’s statement regarding the passage of his bill:
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Fellow Florida members of Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart have also pushed and help pass similar legislation in the House of Representatives earlier this year.
Ros-Lehtinen authored H.R. 4587-– “the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection Act, which sanctions officials in the regime of Nicolas Maduro who are responsible for committing human rights violations.”Here is Ros-Lehtinen’s statement on the passage of Rubio’s bill in the U.S. Senate:
“I would like to applaud the Senate for passing commonsense legislation which will punish the Maduro regime and its cronies for the rampant human rights abuses they have committed in Venezuela. From the protests in the streets of Caracas to the farcical judicial proceedings against Leopoldo Lopez and Maria Corina Machado by Maduro’s own kangaroo courts, we have seen that the regime is only interested in self-preservation, trampling on democratic principles, and undermining the fundamental freedoms of the Venezuelan people. It is my hope that the House will take up and pass this legislation immediately so that with President Obama’s signature, Venezuela’s oppressors will be denied visas to enter the United States and their properties along with their assets will be frozen.”