Senators Urge US to Reimpose Sanctions on Venezuela’s Maduro
- Lawmakers recommend letting oil and gas prohibitions return
- Maduro barred primary winner Machado from running against him
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro
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A bipartisan group of US senators urged President Joe Biden to punish Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro for attacks against his top opposition rival, saying that an upcoming election fails to meet the promise of a free and fair vote.
Maryland Democrat Ben Cardin, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Republicans Marco Rubio of Florida and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana cited “serious concerns” about the integrity of the process leading up to the presidential election scheduled for July.