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Related: About this forumUS Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves resolution on Venezuela
The resolution, which will now be discussed in the Senate, describes as inexcusable the use of violence and politically-motivated criminal charges to intimidate Venezuela's opposition
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed on Tuesday a resolution requesting US President Barack Obama to ban visas to and freeze assets from people responsible for the violation of human rights against peaceful demonstrators and journalists in Venezuela.
The resolution, which will now be discussed in the Senate, describes as inexcusable the use of violence and politically-motivated criminal charges to intimidate Venezuela's opposition, AP reported.
The resolution broadly adopted by the members of the committee calls on the Government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to disarm Government-supported militias and to allow an independent and impartial inquiry into the excessive use of force by authorities against demonstrators.
http://english.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140311/us-senate-foreign-relations-committee-approves-resolution-on-venezuela
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)in the House. No-one agrees with you except that one Repub dude.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Or you agree with them...... however you want to look at it.
Odd that, eh?
I think I know why that is..........
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)rdharma
(6,057 posts)......if everybody agrees with you as you claim.
Any of them trained at the School of the Americas?
Bacchus4.0
(6,837 posts)you are all alone. You have Sean Penn and a few personas here on DU. You should all get together and play cards or something. Nobody should be all alone.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)mecherosegarden
(745 posts)than the democrats senators. Good to remember on election day ,down there in Florida.
ChangoLoa
(2,010 posts)IMO, those are reactionary vultures that have only made things worse in Venezuela by trying to interfere.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)How about "an independent and impartial inquiry into the excessive use of force by authorities against" Occupy?
ChangoLoa
(2,010 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)Mostly I get 1%Media and a few disenfranchised ex-Venezuelans who miss the good life they had at the expense of the majority.
ChangoLoa
(2,010 posts)What is a "disenfranchised ex-Venezuelan" btw?
I really like that "shoot'em all" type of coherence. So close to your historical heroes! You must get bored in your rich country...