'If you truly believe in protecting the human rights of ordinary Cubans and Venezuelans, you should stop leveraging your considerable power in the Senate to maintain the cruel measures that cause profound human suffering.'
additional economic sanctions against the island following anti-government protests in July 2021 and has so far refused to remove the country from the SSOT blacklist.
In their Wednesday letter to Menendez, the economists wrote,"Rep. Escobar and her colleagues are correct: Economic sanctions against Venezuela and Cuba are a big part of the reason for why so many citizens from those countries are abandoning their communities to seek better living conditions in the U.S."
The scholars' intervention comes in response to a recent exchange between Menendez , chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and nearly two dozen House Democrats., U.S. Reps.
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