As we previously reported, on May 28, 2014 the Venezuelan Human Rights and Democracy Protection, H.R. 4587. Senators Bob Menendez (NJ-D) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) were the Senate authors of S. 2142 which passed Monday. The bill will allow sanctions to be imposed on individuals who are responsible for carrying out or ordering human rights violations against the citizens of Venezuela.

With these sanctions, we can end the days of Venezuelan regime officials and thugs repressing innocent Venezuelans in their day jobs and then coming to Florida to live in the lap of luxury and splurge Venezuela’s wealth. This is the first step to address human rights violations in Venezuela, and it will be a blow to the hypocrites in Nicolás Maduro’s regime who talk a lot about socialist sacrifice but who themselves are immune from its failures and live in a fantasy world of gold-plated iPads and fancy cars, even though most Venezuelans can’t even find basic necessities like food and toilet paper.

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Although passing this sanctions legislation is important, it’s only the first step in our work supporting the human rights and democratic aspirations of the Venezuelan people. As Venezuela’s economy and society further deteriorates under the weight of an incompetent, unaccountable and repressive government, failed socialist economic system and dropping oil prices, I believe we are going to see even more repression from Maduro’s regime.