Extrajudicial killings, disappearances, and rape: How the Maduro regime has punished protesters

Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro’s agents have used rape and sexual assault to punish dissidents, according to an international report that U.S. officials hope will spur increased sanctions on the regime.

“It’s a real indictment of the Maduro regime,” State Department special representative Elliott Abrams, the lead diplomat for the Venezuela crisis, told the Washington Examiner. “An indictment like this … should lead any democracy to want to move forward against the regime.”