WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement on reports that Nicolas Maduro has been invited to Mexico’s presidential inauguration next week:
“For nearly four years, the Biden-Harris Administration has failed to do the bare minimum to hold indicted narco-terrorist Nicolas Maduro accountable. We are encouraged to see Argentina and Ecuador join in the call to arrest Maduro. The Biden-Harris Administration should follow suit and work with our democratic partners in the Western Hemisphere to seek the arrest and extradition of Maduro if he visits Mexico in the next few days.”
Background:
In November 2023, Risch and Grassley sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an explanation of what, if any, legal actions the Department of Justice and State Department have taken to seek the arrest and extradition of Nicolas Maduro since 2021.
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