Rep. Salazar Spars With Fmr Venezuela Ambassador Over Sanctions

Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., blasted the Biden administration over their lack of enforcement of oil sanctions during a time of deep political corruption in Venezuela during a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee hearing on Friday.

Salazar chaired the committee meetings that analyzed the ongoing crisis in Venezuela and the United States’ response to President Nicolás Maduro’s attempts to circumvent his country’s elections on July 28.

Maduro has been accused of manipulating voting data via the National Electoral Council, which he controls, to declare himself the winner even though exit polls showed his opponent, Edmundo González Urrutia, received well over 60% of the vote.

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