(Washington) The United States, which had not recognized in January, under the government of Joe Biden, the re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, announced on Thursday that it had doubled the bonus for the arrest of the American trafficking leader’s justice.
“Today, the Department of Justice and the State Department announce a reward of $ 50 million for any information leading to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro,” the previous prime bondi was written on X, the previous bonus being 25 million dollars.
On January 10, ten days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the Biden government denounced the “simulacrum” and the “illegitimate” nature of the nounge of Nicolas Maduro re -elected six months earlier.
The then Democratic Secretary of State at the time, Antony Blinken, and the US Treasury had imposed new sanctions in Caracas, with 15 to 25 million dollars the award for any information allowing to court the Venezuelan leader.
Washington then estimated that Nicolas “Maduro A (Vait) clearly lost the presidential election of 2024 and has (Vait) not the right to claim the presidency”.
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 victory to the presidential election.
The American award on Thursday of $ 25 to 50 million concerns all information leading to the arrest of Mr. 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 “narcotic drug” dates back to 2020, at the end of Donald Trump’s first mandate.
The prosecutor of justice and his federal court in New York, who have already condemned several ex-Latin American leaders in recent years, accuse Nicolas Maduro of being behind a cartel who would have sent hundred tons of drugs in two decades to the United States, for hundreds of millions of dollars.
The American authorities, and Pam Bondi reaffirmed him on Thursday evening on social networks, suspect the cartel of having worked hand in hand with the Colombian organization of the FARC, which Washington considers “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.
