US offers $50 million reward for arrest of Venezuelan leader!

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US offers $50 million reward for arrest of Venezuelan leader!
Nicolas Maduro/Donald Trump

The US has doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50m (£37.2m), accusing him of being " one of the world's biggest drug traffickers ".

US President Donald Trump is an early critic of Maduro, who was returned to office in January after elections marred by allegations of vote rigging.

The results were widely rejected by the international community.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the US would double the $25 million reward already announced, adding that Maduro was linked to drug trafficking.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said the new award was "pathetic" and labeled it "political propaganda."

During Trump's first term, the US government charged Maduro and other senior Venezuelan officials with a range of criminal offenses, including narcoterrorism, corruption and drug trafficking.

At the time, the US Department of Justice alleged that Maduro had collaborated with the Colombian rebel group Farc to "use cocaine as a weapon to 'flood' the United States."

In a video posted on X on Thursday, Bondi accused Maduro of coordinating with groups like Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has declared a terrorist organization, and the Sinaloa Cartel, a powerful criminal network based in Mexico.


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