Washington. The government of the US President Donald Trump increased yesterday Thursday, August 7, from 25 to 50 million dollars the reward for “information that leads to the arrest” of the president of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro, whom he accuses of collaborating with drug trafficking organizations.
“It is one of the largest drug traffickers in the world and a threat to our national security,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a video uploaded to his social network X.
“Maduro’s terror regime continues,” he adds on the Chavista leader, whose re -election since 2018 is considered fraudulent by Washington.
Bondi accuses the Venezuelan president of using “foreign terrorist organizations such as the Aragua Train, (the poster of) Sinaloa and the Los Sol Cartel to introduce lethal drugs and violence” in the United States.
To date, the United States anti -drug agency (DEA) “has seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and its accomplices, with almost seven linked tons” to the Chavista leader, Bondi says.
It is the “main source of income” for cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico, adds Washington.
Bondi says that cocaine is usually mixed with fentanil, a synthetic opioid that wreaks havoc in the United States.
The Department of Justice “has seized more than 700 million dollars in assets linked to Maduro, including two private planes, nine vehicles and more,” the attorney general continues.
“Therefore, we have doubled its reward for 50 million dollars. Under the leadership of President Trump, Maduro will not escape justice and respond for his heinous crimes,” he insists.
The Attorney General gives a telephone number and asks for information “to take this criminal before justice.”
The administration of former president Joe Biden had risen to 25 million dollars the amount offered by the Chavista leader, accused of “drug trafficking” and “corruption.”
Both the Biden and Trump government recognized as “legitimate president” of Venezuela to the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia, who claims the triumph in the 2024 elections.
The White House accuses Chavismo of moving the threads of the criminal band Train de Aragua, declared by Washington “terrorist” global organization, which has not prevented him from sending emissaries to negotiate with high Venezuelan positions the release of Americans arrested in Venezuela.
In July, the head of the United States diplomacy, Marco Rubio announced the release of 10 Americans detained in Venezuela by virtue of an agreement reached with the help of El Salvador.
“Ridicle”
Venezuela crossed out of “pathetic” and “ridiculous” the new reward of 50 million dollars offered this Thursday by the United States for “information that leads to the arrest” of the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, whom he accuses of collaborating with drug trafficking organizations.
“Pamela Bondi’s ‘reward’ pathetic is the most ridiculous smoke curtain we have seen,” said Venezuela’s chancellor, Yván Gil in a message on Telegram. “His show is a joke, a desperate distraction of his own miseries. The dignity of our homeland is not for sale. We repudiate this gross political propaganda operation,” he added.
