US offers $50m reward for arrest of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro
The United States gave an award for the information that led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and accused him of being “one of the world’s largest narco-traffikers”.
US President Donald Trump has long been a critic of Maduro, who has returned to office in January after an election with voting allegations. The results were widely rejected by the international community.
The Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi said that the US would double its $ 25 million award (£ 18.6 million) in which the US had previously announced and that Maduro was directly linked to drug trafficking operations.
The Venezuela government did not publicly respond to Bondi’s words, but Maduro previously rejected these claims.
In the first period of Trump, the US government accused Maduro and other senior Venezuela officials of a number of crimes, including narco-terrorism, corruption and drug trafficking.
At that time, the US Department of Justice claimed that Maduro was working together with the Colombian rebel group FARC to “use Cocain as a weapon to ‘overflow’.
In a video published on Thursday, Bondi accused Maduro of coordination with groups such as the Venezuela gang, a Venezuela gang, where Trump administration declared a terrorist organization, and with groups such as Sinaloa Cartel, a powerful network of Mexican.
The US Drug Application Administration (DEA) claimed that “Maduro and its partners seized 30 tons of cocaine and about seven tons of Maduro depends on it”.
Maduro previously claimed that he had direct participation in drug trafficking.
Bondi’s comments are an extension of the long -standing tensions between the US and the Venezuelan government – but the Chief Public Prosecutor did not provide any other indicator of how the government foresees the renewed appeal application and that the cash incentive would result.
Maduro, the leader of the United Socialist Party and gave the success of Hugo Chavez in 2013, is accused of suppressing opposition groups and silencing, including the use of violence in Venezuela.
After last year’s controversial elections, protests worn out and maintained his grip in power.
However, in June, Hugo Carvajal, the president of Venezuela’s military intelligence, was convicted of several drug trafficking after being arrested in Madrid and being tried in the United States.
Carvajal was a feared Spyter, which was called al -Pollo or chicken, but after calling the army to support an opposition candidate and overthrow Maduro, he escaped from Venezuela.
He initially rejected drug charges, but later changed his objection to guilty, and fueled his speculation for a US sentence in exchange for accusing Maduro.
Britain and the EU announced the Sanctions against the Maduro government after returning to office earlier this year.
