Thank you, Chairman Brian Mast and all members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee for a very productive meeting. On behalf of the Venezuelan people, I deeply appreciate your bipartisan support for our democratic transition. I thank Members of Congress from both parties, as well as Donald Trump and his administration, for their decisive actions to dismantle the regime’s criminal structures. The first, unequivocal step forward is the release of all political prisoners and an end to repression. A free Venezuela will be the strongest and most strategic ally of the United States in the hemisphere. -