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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1409 

Standing in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and condemning Nicola ́s 

Maduro’s attempt to steal the Venezuelan Presidential election. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

AUGUST 2, 2024 

Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (for herself, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Ms. WILSON of 

Florida, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. SOTO, Mr. GIMENEZ, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, 

Mr. WALTZ, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Ms. SALAZAR, Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Mr. MAST, Ms. LOIS FRANKEL of Florida, Mr. MOONEY, Ms. 

TITUS, Mrs. GONZA ́LEZ-COLO ́N, Mr. COSTA, Mr. HUIZENGA, Mr. GOLDMAN of New York, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. GALLEGO, Mr. 

SCHNEIDER, Mr. VICENTE GONZALEZ of Texas, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. KIM

of New Jersey, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. GARCIA of Texas, Mrs. TORRES of California, Ms. MANNING, and Mr. RESCHENTHALER) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Standing in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and condemning Nicola ́s Maduro’s attempt to steal the Venezuelan Presidential election. 

Whereas, on July 28, 2024, more than 11,000,000 Venezuelans turned out to vote in the Venezuelan Presidential election; 

Whereas this election was preceded by over a decade of violent repression and persecution of political opponents, 

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tutions, extrajudicial murder, arbitrary detention and torture, curtailed freedom of expression and the press, and 

systematic abuse of power by Nicola ́s Maduro and his regime; 

Whereas the vast majority of the more than 8,000,000 Venezuelan citizens who have fled Venezuela under Maduro’s 

reign were denied their right to vote in this election due 

to excessive and arbitrary legal requirements to register; 

Whereas opposition leaders Marı ́a Corina Machado and 

Corina Yoris were banned from running for President by 

the regime-controlled supreme court despite Machado 

winning the opposition Presidential primary with over 90 

percent of the vote; 

Whereas the Maduro regime barred several groups of independent electoral observers from entering the country to 

monitor the election; 

Whereas the Maduro regime has arbitrarily detained, forcefully disappeared, or forced into exile thousands of opposition political organizers, activists, human rights defenders, and others perceived to be critical of Maduro’s illegitimate rule in Venezuela; 

Whereas, according to Foro Penal, the Maduro regime currently holds more than 270 political prisoners and has 

conducted over 15,000 politically motivated arbitrary arrests over the last decade in Venezuela; 

Whereas Nicola ́s Maduro stated prior to the election that he 

had no intention of accepting defeat or providing for a 

peaceful transition of power; 

Whereas the United States determined that these arbitrary 

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vided for certain electoral conditions to be met and was 

signed by the regime and the opposition democratic Unitary Platform; 

Whereas despite these conditions rendering the election neither free nor fair, Edmundo Gonza ́lez Urrutia stepped 

forward to represent the opposition in the election for 

President in order to provide an alternative to Maduro’s 

tyranny; 

Whereas, according to the opposition, official tally sheets 

from 24,384 voting centers in Venezuela, representing 

81.21 percent of the total estimated vote count, were collected by observers; 

Whereas the results from these tally sheets appear to demonstrate an overwhelming victory for Gonza ́lez, who received 7,119,768 votes or 67 percent of the total, over 

Maduro, who received only 3,225,819 votes or 30 percent 

of the total; 

Whereas the margin of victory for Gonza ́lez is such that the 

remaining 18.79 percent of uncounted votes would not be 

sufficient to reverse the result; 

Whereas the regime-controlled National Electoral Council refused to reveal the votes and instead announced that 

Maduro had prevailed in the election while failing to announce disaggregated results by polling station; 

Whereas the announced results are not evidenced with any 

electoral data and appear to represent a blatant electoral 

fraud at the behest of Maduro; 

Whereas hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who gathered 

to peacefully protest the Maduro regime’s attempt to 

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lent repression that has left hundreds arrested, at least 

16 dead, and hundreds injured; 

Whereas the Maduro regime has issued arrest warrants for 

Marı ́a Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonza ́lez on false 

criminal charges; and 

Whereas the United States was joined by 16 Latin American 

and Caribbean nations, the European Union, and several 

other democratic governments in raising concerns about 

this apparent electoral fraud, requesting the release of 

full, transparent, and detailed voting data, and demanding that the Maduro regime honor the will of the Venezuelan people: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) recognizes Edmundo Gonza ́lez Urrutia as 

3 the President-elect of Venezuela; 

4 (2) expresses solidarity with the Venezuelan 

5 people and Venezuelan Americans in their aspira6 tions for a democratic future for Venezuela; 

7 (3) commends Venezuela’s pro-democracy oppo8 sition movement for their pursuit of a peaceful tran9 sition of power through electoral means despite the 

10 regime’s actions over the last year that rendered the 

11 election neither free nor fair; 

12 (4) condemns the Maduro regime’s cowardly 

13 and destructive attempt to steal the election and un14 dermine the will of the Venezuelan people; 


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1 (5) denounces the Maduro regime’s violent re2 pression of Venezuelans peacefully demonstrating in 

3 support of democracy; 

4 (6) affirms that the will of the voters must be 

5 respected and a peaceful transition of power initi6 ated; 

7 (7) calls for the imposition of new sanctions on 

8 the Maduro regime as well as sanctions targeting in9 dividuals and entities involved in subverting democ10 racy and repressing the opposition, including foreign 

11 governments and non-state entities assisting the re12 gime’s election subversion and repression; and 

13 (8) calls on the United States Government and 

14 all democratic nations to reject Maduro’s fraudulent 

15 claim of victory and employ all available diplomatic 

16 and economic means to pressure the Maduro regime 

17 to honor the true election results. 

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