Miami (AP)-The Trump government doubles up to $ 50 million a reward for the arrest of the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused him of being one of the world's largest narco-tapaffickers and to work with cartels with Fentanyl-Racain.
“Under the leadership of President Trump, Maduro will not escape justice and will be held responsible for his despicable crimes,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday in a video announced the reward.
Maduro was sued in 2020 in 2020 in the federal court of Manhattan, during the first Trump presidency, together with various close allies on federal accusations of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine. At the time, the US offered a reward of $ 15 million for its arrest. This was later increased by the BIDEN administration to $ 25 million – the same amount that the US offered for the conquest of Osama Bin Laden after the attacks of 11 September 2001.
Despite the large premium, Maduro remains deep after the event of the US, the European Union and various Latin -American governments that his re -election in 2024 convicted as a sham and his opponent recognized his elected President of Venezuela.
Last month, the Trump administration concluded a deal to guarantee the release of 10 Americans in the capital, Caracas, in exchange for Venezuela who have been deported to the United States of the United States to El Salvador's immigration realing of the Trump government. Shortly thereafter, the White House turned around the course of the white and our oil producer Chevron allowed to resume drilling in Venezuela after it was previously blocked by American sanctions.
Bondi said that the Ministry of Justice has seized more than $ 700 million in assets associated with Maduro, including two private jets, and said that almost 7 tons seized cocaine had been traced directly to the left leader.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil published a statement that characterized the reward as 'pathetic' and accused Bondi of orchestrating a 'rough political propaganda operation'.
“It is not surprised, coming from whom it comes from. The same one that promised a non-existent 'secret list' of Epstein and that is rolling in scandals for political favors,” said Gil, referring to the Backlash Bondi who was confronted after the Ministry of Justice did not exist for a long-standing “Clientlist. “Her show is a joke, a desperate distraction from her own misery.”
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Associated Press writer Regina Garcia Cano has contributed to this report from Mexico City.
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This story has been corrected to show that the Ministry of Justice has been traced directly to Maduro, almost 7 tons seized cocaine.
