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Venezuelans marked with numbers11/21/2023 Naturally, there is ample skepticism that the regime would hold an election that could threaten its grip on power. Photo by Manaure Quintero/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Opposition politician Sergio Garrido celebrates after upsetting Maduro’s candidate in a special election for governor of Barinas state, the birthplace of Hugo Chavez, in Jan. There is broad support for denying Maduro the international legitimacy he craves and the financing his government needs unless he holds a legitimate election. Today, most members of Congress agree on using sanctions as leverage to induce the Maduro regime to engage in genuine negotiations with the political opposition and improve conditions for the 2024 election. Democrats were largely supportive of Trump’s gambit to recognize National Assembly leader Juan Guaidó as the legitimate president of Venezuela and to widen sanctions on the Venezuela economy. In 2015, President Obama issued an executive order on the “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security” posed by Venezuela, and his administration laid the groundwork for sanctions imposed on Venezuelan officials by the Trump Administration. On Venezuela, too, Republicans and Democrats have generally found common cause, jointly reacting with alarm as Presidents Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro dismantled democratic institutions, engaged in drug trafficking, allied with rogue regimes and created an economic calamity that has driven more than 7 million Venezuelans out of the country. presidencies and both parties have supported development programs to address the root causes of migration from Central America. Bush Administration’s diplomatic efforts that helped end civil wars in Central America the North American and U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreements each passed with a strong bipartisan vote in Congress Plan Colombia, which reduced drug trafficking and weakened an armed insurgency, has been implemented across five U.S. In recent decades, Democrats backed the George H.W. policy in the Americas has often been characterized by bipartisanship. Countering China and buttressing Ukraine against Russia top the list, but the foremost opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to work together may be in Venezuela, where presidential elections next year offer the best chance in years for a democratic opening. ![]() Despite divided government in Washington, there is ample room for bipartisan action on U.S.
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