Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We need the support of countries that right now are abstaining. In the last vote, talking about Venezuela, the General Secretary of OAS, Luis Almagro, had all the information about Venezuela and did not form a very good document of all our realities. In the last vote among all th

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We did denounce that. The director of that jail, when he finished his term inside the jail where he tortured Leopold and our family, was given responsibility for the airport and the port in Caracas in Venezuela.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Ellos premian a los torturadores: they promote those in the army who torture Leopoldo, political prisoners, and our families.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  They control everything. They control the media, they control the TV, the radio; and they control the airport; the court; the jail. The military jail is at the top of a mountain, but the whole mountain is a military zone, so we get in the lower part of the mountain and we start s

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Because they are going to lose. They don't have the people.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Your question is very important. I asked the same questions to Leopoldo, in jail. Why is our country like that? Why is there a mess like this? What happened? Leopoldo answered, “Lilian, it was 18 years with Chávez and they put in ministers.” We met a lot of ministers today here,

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Seventy-three percent have lost weight. Seventy-three percent don't have three meals every day. The crisis goes to everybody. Right now, in Venezuela, Diego Arellano, 31 years, died. Another shot in protest today. One more. Fifty-one. San Antonio de los Altos. All the kidnapped

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes, there are groups with long guns, and short guns, and with motorcycles. Maybe before, we had more. Now they are a minimum, but they are still there. Chávez gave guns to this group of people and started doing a politics of aggression. We have a terrorist state. They [Witness

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That's a very good question. We have been in this fight 18 years, but for our families, for me, I have been fighting for the release of my husband for the last three years. But I try to help the poor people in Venezuela. We started a campaign called Rescue Venezuela. We go around

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. In Venezuela we have five powers. One of the powers is the—

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  This one says no, it is a dictatorship. The moral power is lacking and so Tarek William Saab...and we're waiting for his voice, but his son of 26 years tweeted a video saying, “Father, stop. This is a dictatorship. Do your work. You are a human rights person in the government. Wh

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay. Yes, right now in Venezuela we don't have the rule of law. We don't have autonomous powers. That's why in 2014 Leopoldo López, my husband, asked for an election and protests in the streets to change that to prevent the humanitarian crisis that we have right now. Right now

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon, Chairman Levitt, distinguished members of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights, and ladies and gentlemen. Thank you, Irwin Cotler, and thank you, Jared Genser. My name is Lilian Tintori. I am honoured to be able to testify today. As I join you here, a

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you.