US senator calls for release of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López

"The United States will not look the other way while the democratic aspirations of Venezuelans are viciously trampled," said the democrat senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Democrat Robert Menéndez, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made an appeal to the international community on Wednesday to condemn the incarceration of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, detained on Tuesday.

"I call on the international community to join me in condemning the unjust imprisonment of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and the ongoing political persecution of María Corina Machado, Carlos Vecchio and other members of the country's political opposition," Menéndez noted in a statement issued during a visit in Colombia.

"Venezuela cannot be governed through fear, violence and political retribution as President Maduro, members of his security forces, and government supporters are exhibiting on a daily basis," the senator remarked.

Menéndez said, "The United States will not look the other way while the democratic aspirations of Venezuelans are viciously trampled."

Source: El Universal
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Conservative Leader Attacks Kerry For Pursuing Middle East Peace

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Leading conservative Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, criticized Secretary of State John Kerry this week for pursuing peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, saying Kerry risks upending “the quietest place in the region.”
Kerry helped restart the moribund peace process last year and has since assembled a team of top experts and diplomats to handle the issue and made numerous trips to the region to help facilitate the talks.
Speaking with Frank Gaffney on his radio show on Tuesday, Kristol attacked the Obama administration’s foreign policy and roped in Kerry’s efforts in the Middle East. “I mean Kerry’s maniacal insistence on a peace process in the Middle East when tens of thousands of people are being killed next door,” he said, adding that Kerry is “obsessed with disrupting” the relative calm in Israel and the Palestinian Territories:

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Muslim Brotherhood Leader Meets Obama in White House

What’s the big deal? A couple of allies, a couple of people of like mind meet it happens all the time. “,” by Adam Kredo for the Washington Free Beacon, February 5 (thanks to Pamela Geller):
A senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood was recently hosted at the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama, prompting an outcry from critics of the global Islamist organization.
Anas Altikriti, a top British lobbyist for the Muslim Brotherhood whose father heads Iraq’s Muslim Brotherhood party, recently met with the president and Vice President Joe Biden as part of a delegation discussing problems in Iraq.
Altikriti, whose work has also been tied to Hamas, can be seen smiling in photos published by the White House as he stands next to Iraqi Parliament Speaker Usama al-Nujaifi, who is pictured shaking hands with President Obama in the White House’s Roosevelt Room. The meeting was first highlighted by the blog Harry’s Place.
The Obama administration has been criticized its outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamist organization whose members’ brief reign in Egypt was supported by the White House.
Nujaifi, Altikriti, and other members of the Iraqi delegation were in town late January to discuss al Qaeda’s growing presence in Iraq. Nujaifi himself was reported to have met twice with President Obama, though it remains unclear if Altikriti accompanied him on both occasions.

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