European Parliament Calls for More EU Venezuela Sanctions

The EU should impose more sanctions against Venezuela for the Nicolas Maduro regime’s attacks against civil society and political opposition figures, the European Parliament said in a resolution this week. The resolution, approved 497-22, with 27 abstentions, said the bloc should increase sanctions on “high-level officials, members of the security forces, members of the regime’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice and Maduro himself” for their role in “imprisoning hundreds of political prisoners.”