Rubio, Colleague: “Dictator Nicolas Maduro stole the presidential election again”
Yesterday, the Venezuelan people voted in an election that was questionable from the start and was neither free nor fair.
U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), John Kennedy (R-LA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Peter Welch (D-VT), Rick Scott (R-FL), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Tim Scott (R-SC), and U.S. Representatives Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), Jennifer Gonzalez Colon (R-PU), Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) issued a joint statement after the criminal and illegitimate Maduro narco-regime declared victory in this fraudulent presidential election.
- “In a surprise to no one, dictator Nicolas Maduro has once again stolen a presidential election. But what the narco-regime can never steal is the desire of the Venezuelan people to return to democracy and live in freedom after decades of oppression. We must unite the free world in rejecting this fraudulent election result and making it a priority to secure the release of more than 300 Venezuelans who are being arbitrarily detained in torture centers as political prisoners.”
- “The Maduro dictatorship is experiencing internal divisions and its members know that the status quo, riddled with incompetence, can no longer be sustained. There is great discontent in the streets of Venezuela and ordinary citizens support the opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez. There can be no doubt: the countries and international organizations that are supporting this fraud on an unimaginable scale must be held accountable, as must the members of the narco-regime and its ‘National Electoral Council’.”
Want to learn more?
- July 2024: Rubio: “The resilience and courage of the Venezuelan people will be on full display.”
- June 2024: Rubio to Biden: Ensure U.S. taxpayer money doesn’t support criminal regime interests at the UN
- June 2024: In case you missed it: Rubio: Stop appeasing Venezuela’s narco-regime
- April 2024: In case you missed it: Rubio: Reimposing sanctions on Maduro prematurely and insufficiently
- April 2024: Rubio and Risch on the Biden Administration’s decision not to extend oil licenses to the criminal Maduro regime
- April 2024: Rubio, Cardin and Cassidy issue joint statement on Venezuela
- March 2024: Senators Rubio and Salazar applaud House Foreign Affairs Committee’s passage of VERDAD reauthorization bill
- March 2024: Rubio, Durbin, Cassidy, Cardin: “Maduro is afraid to confront Machado in a truly democratic process.”
- February 2024: In case you missed it: Rubio criticizes Biden for being soft on Maduro
- January 2024: Rubio and colleagues: The time to act on Venezuela is now
- December 2023: Rubio and colleagues release a statement about the Maduro regime’s harassment of the democratic opposition.
- December 2023: Rubio urges Biden to reinstate sanctions on Venezuela’s regime
- December 2023: Rubio: President Biden’s actions to free Saab are shameless
- November 2023: Rubio and colleagues introduce a reauthorization bill to maintain sanctions against the Maduro regime.
- November 2023: In case you missed it: The Biden administration must stop imposing naïve policies on Venezuela
- October 2023: Rubio questions Secretary of State Blinken following Biden administration’s deal with Maduro’s drug regime
- October 2023: Rubio: Biden’s concessions would help Maduro maintain dictatorial control over Venezuela
- October 2023: Rubio and Cain talk about Venezuela’s opposition primary elections
- September 2023: During a summit between Xi and Maduro, Rubio urges the Biden administration to maintain sanctions against the narco-regime.
- July 2023: In case you missed it: Rubio accuses Biden of appeasing Maduro.
