Good afternoon.
I listened to your testimony in comparison to previous testimony we've heard at this committee, and we've had witnesses stating that Venezuela is hugely better off since this government came to power. They spoke particularly about the constitution. As they described it, people carried the constitution with them. It was something they discussed in public; it was a living document for them. And as a result, they felt empowered.
We've heard people talk today about the different levels, for lack of a better word, the class structure of that community, where the well-to-do may not be doing as well as they once were and those who weren't doing well are doing much better. That balancing isn't something I would particularly argue against.
There was one thing that struck me about the television station losing its licence. If you took any other country in Central America, or perhaps even Canada, if you had a television station that was part of leading a coup against the government, who would license it after that? A question that comes to my mind is that of the 34 administrative licences being blocked, were any of those involved with the coup?