Washington, D.C.– Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the President’s recognition of Juan Guaidó as interim president of Venezuela:
“Nicolás Maduro’s outlaw regime has immiserated Venezuela and its people. Now Venezuelans are in the streets demanding leaders who will give them freedom, not the anti-American scapegoating and empty store shelves of socialism. I commend the president for recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the rightful president of Venezuela. The United States proudly supports the Venezuelan people against the corrupt elite who have oppressed them for far too long.”
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