Order, please.
Colleagues, today is February 5, 2015, and this is the 54th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development.
We are televised today. Today we are continuing hearings that we've held episodically on the issue of arbitrary detention of political opposition figures in Venezuela.
We have with us three distinguished witnesses. I'm going to name them in alphabetical order, which is not an indication of priority. They are Diana Lopez, Carlos Vecchio, and Orlando Viera-Blanco.
I haven't had a chance to ask the witnesses who would like to go in which order. Maybe you could just signal to me which person would like to go in which order and we'll begin.
I'll just advise you that the way in which this committee works is we only have an hour, unfortunately, so we let the time you take to make your comments dictate how much time is left for questions.
I'll wait until the end of your comments and when your comments are finished, I'll indicate how many minutes we have for each of the six members of the committee to ask questions that you can then answer.