The United States Minister of Justice, Pam Bondi, announced a reward $ 50 million for any information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro so that he was tried for “drug trafficking and corruption”.
The United States announced this Thursday, August 7, having doubled the premium for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday, August 7, August 7, which are not recognized by Washington.
“Today, the Ministry of Justice and the State Department announce a reward of $ 50 million for any information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro,” the US Minister of Justice, Pam Bondi, the previous premium being $ 25 million.
Caracas was quick to respond and qualify as “pathetic” this decision of the government of Donald Trump. “We reject this gross political propaganda operation,” the Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yvan Gil, in a statement.
Last January 10, ten days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the government of the Democrat Joe Biden denounced the “simulacrum” and the “illegitimate” nature of the nounge of Nicolas Maduro, re -elected six months earlier to a third term, for six years.
The then Secretary of State of State, Antony Blinken, and the US Treasury had imposed new sanctions in Caracas, with 15 to 25 million dollars the award for any information allowing the Venezuelan leader to be brought to justice.
“Media circus”
Washington estimated that Nicolas “Maduro A (Vait) clearly lost the 2024 presidential election and has (Vait) not the right to claim the presidency”. Antony Blinken’s successor, Republican Marco Rubio, resumed the same accusations on Thursday.
“Since 2020, Maduro has strangled democracy and hung on to power in Venezuela,” the American diplomacy said in a statement.
The Venezuelan president, with the support of the army and an administration under orders, had taken an oath for a third term of six years during a ceremony qualified as “coup” by the opposition, which claims the victory in the presidential election.
“While we dismantle terrorist conspiracies orchestrated from her country, this lady comes out with a media circus to please the defeated far right of Venezuela,” Minvan Gil, in response to Pam Bondi on Thursday.
The American award placed Thursday from 25 to 50 million dollars concerns all information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and his Minister of the Interior to be tried for “drug trafficking and corruption”, according to Washington. This indictment, in particular for participation and complicity of an international “narcotrafic”, dates back to 2020, at the end of Donald Trump’s first mandate.
Cartel, criminal gang …
The American federal prosecutor’s office, which has already condemned several ex-Latin American leaders in recent years, accuses Nicolas Maduro of being behind a cartel who would have sent hundreds of tons of drugs to the United States for hundreds of millions of dollars. The American authorities suspect the cartel of having worked hand in hand with the Colombian organization of the Farc, which Washington considers as “terrorist”.
The Minister of Justice finally accused Nicolas Maduro of having collaborated with the Venezuelan Criminal Gang Tren of Aragua and the Mexican cartel Sinaloa. The American president wants to oust Nicolas Maduro from power and economically suffocate Venezuela. Since his return to the White House, Donald Trump has notably hardened the oil embargo, announcing that he would inflict additional customs duties to countries that buy Venezuelan oil.
The government of Nicolas Maduro has long denounced him an interference from the United States in Venezuelan affairs. His Minister of the Interior said on Thursday that the security services thwarted a bomb attack in Caracas, accusing as often the opposition and the United States of being the instigators. The authorities regularly denounce real or imaginary plots aimed at destabilizing the country or overthrowing Nicolas Maduro.
