Senate Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Bob Menendez criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders for his refusal to label socialist Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro a dictator
Senate Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Bob Menendez on Tuesday criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders for his refusal to label socialist Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro a dictator, telling MSNBC 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 decision to break with his party and with a large majority of other politicians by declining to support Maduro’s ouster as president of Venezuela. 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 crisis.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 in an interview on CNN’s “New Day.” “Dictatorship oppresses their people. I'm really surprised that Senator Sanders could not at least call him a dictator.”Sanders' congressional office did not immediately return a request for comment on Menendez's criticism.
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