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This week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, joined a dozen senators in calling on President Joe Biden to do more to help that South American nation which is currently facing strikes and blockades over economic and human right issues. More than 70 people have been killed in Colombia during the protests. 

Rubio and Menendez also called on the Ortega regime to do more to help advance freedom in Nicaragua.

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

Since taking office almost two years ago, President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has grown increasingly powerful. 

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.”

Rubio, who sits on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and leads Republicans on the U.S. Senate Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, introduced the resolution on Monday. Scott and U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, the chairman of the committee, are backing the resolution as cosponsors. Other supporters include U.S. Sens. Ben Cardin, D-Mary., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

Diaz-Balart joined U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., held an event in Doral on Friday.