Thank you.
Thank you for your testimony here today. It's important to hear a direct line of testimony. I want to say right off the top that we're certainly supportive of your husband's release and that of the other political prisoners.
I have to take us back a little bit. In this committee we've heard a divergence of testimony over a number of years. I can recall, when the revolution first happened, that there was a certain degree of celebration outside. It was seen in parts of the world that a number of very wealthy families ruled Venezuela for years, and that perhaps this revolution was a positive change. Witnesses we had here talked about how they carried the constitution at the time, the new constitution, and for the first time felt part of things.
So this isn't the first revolution to have gone awry. The testimony you're giving today is very troubling. For those who initially believed...and I can recall how in Cuba, when the revolution took place there, there was a certain sense that something good was happening.
Turning to my question, though, the United Nations working group plus the high commissioner have called for your husband's release. In both of those instances, what was the response from the government?