Analyst rules out pressure on Venezuela from the US Congress

"They (Republican Senators) were only using the issue to attract Hispanic voters, but now that they managed to obtain control over the Senate, they will move on to other matters. I do not really think they care about human rights in Venezuela," stated Dennis Anderson, Professor of Information Management at St. Francis College in New York. For his part, Saúl Ortega, the Vice-President of the Foreign Policy Committee, Venezuelan National Assembly, deems sanctions against Venezuela unlikely; he remarked that those measures were promoted by insane "Miami-based lobbyists." More…