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This week, U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sent a letter to President Joe Biden, insisting there were dangerous consequences to his administration’s recent actions towards Venezuela and warning him against...

This week, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to deny visas for Nicolas Maduro, Miguel Díaz-Canel, Daniel Ortega and their representatives to attend the United...

At the end of last week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter to President Joe Biden urging him to publicly reaffirm the United States’ existing policy toward Venezuela and invite the interim...

This week, Republicans in the Florida congressional delegation sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to invite Juan Guaidó, the democratically-elected President of the National Assembly of Venezuela, to attend the...

Maduro named the new members of the CNE this week in a move to help establish a better relationship with the Biden administration. 

Rubio’s resolution also recognizes “Interim President Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s leader in the absence of a democratically elected president in the nation and reiterates the lack of legitimacy of the Maduro regime’s National Constituent Assembly.”

Supporters of the Maduro regime took two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly as only 31 percent of Venezuelan voters cast ballots. 

As an original co-sponsor of the “Venezuela Temporary Protected Status and Asylum Assistance Act,” Rubio has repeatedly advocated a temporary solution for Venezuelans for whom it is too dangerous to return home.

Last week, Rubio, who sits on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the resolution “condemning the Maduro regime’s ongoing efforts to hold fraudulent legislative elections scheduled for this December” with the support of several senators including Scott and U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, the top Democrat on the committee.

This week, Rubio, who sits on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the resolution “condemning the Maduro regime’s ongoing efforts to hold fraudulent legislative elections scheduled for this December” with the support of several senators including Scott and U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, the top Democrat on the committee.

Trying to help President Donald Trump, much of the Republican outreach to Hispanic voters in Florida has focused on international issues, including taking shots at former Vice President Joe Biden’s policies on Cuba and Venezuela. 

Venezuela and Cuba have become the battlegrounds in the fight for Florida in the November presidential election.