Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Bob Menendez said that he was 'surprised' Sen. Bernie Sanders refused to label socialist Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro a dictator
Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Bob Menendez on Tuesday criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders for his refusal to label socialist Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro a dictator, telling CNN that he was "surprised" that the Democratic presidential candidate has declined to do so.
In a CNN town hall Monday night, Sanders was pressed on his break with the Democratic Party and a majority of other politicians by declining to support Maduro’s ouster. Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, has refused to affix the dictator label to Maduro, who has overseen Venezuela's decline into political, economic and humanitarian crises.On Tuesday, Menendez took issue with Sanders' unwillingness to characterize Maduro as a dictator.
“Dictatorship is dictatorship whether from the right or left,” the foreign relations committee's top Democrat said on CNN’s “New Day.” “Dictatorship oppresses their people. I'm really surprised that Sen. Sanders could not at least call him a dictator.”Sanders' congressional office dismissed Menendez's criticism in a statement Tuesday.
“This whole question of 'why won’t you condemn Dictator X?' is a game that Washington hawks play to reaffirm the interventionist status quo, and Bernie won't play it," Sanders foreign affairs adviser Matt Duss said. "Bernie has always been clear about the values that inform his approach, whether it's domestic or foreign policy: human rights, equality, dignity, and security. He supports an approach to Venezuela based on those values.
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