Two weeks ago, at the invitation of
Senator Bob Corker, I testified before the Committee on Foreign Relations at a
hearing on Venezuela’s current crisis of governance. It was a remarkable
meeting at a remarkable time in Washington. Although the hearing started with
senators expressing their willingness to add to the list of sanctioned
Venezuelan officials, by the end of the session all discussion was about the
need for vigorous multilateral diplomacy. Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican
like Mr. Corker and one of the authors of existing sanctions legislation,
suggested that the Trump administration should support the invocation by the
Organization of American States’ secretary general, Luis Almagro, of the
O.A.S.’s Inter-American Democratic Charter, which lays out standards for
democratic rule in the hemisphere.More…
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