The Attorney General offers $ 50 million in bonuses for Venezuelan President
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The Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Thursday a reward of $ 50 million for information leading to the arrest of the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The Ministry of Justice and the State Department announced the award, compared to $ 25 million. The United States has accused Maduro of having helped drugs and street gangs, as well as to exploit a corrupt and repressive diet.
“Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like ADD (Tren of Aragua), Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns (sole cartel) to bring deadly violence to our country,” Bondi said in a video message. “He is one of the largest narco-trafments in the world and a threat to our national security.”
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The president of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro arrives for the military parade as part of the 214th anniversary of the independence celebrations of Venezuela on July 5, 2025, in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo of Jesus Vargas / Getty Images) (Photo of Jesus Vargas / Getty Images)
Cartel of the Suns is a Venezuelan organization of drug trafficking made up of high -ranking Venezuelan officials. In March 2020, Maduro was charged in a federal accusation of narco-terrorism, a conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and a conspiracy in order to have machine guns and destructive devices.
To date, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has entered 30 tonnes of cocaine linked to Maduro and its associates, said Bondi. Medicines are a main source of income for Mexican and Venezuelan cartels, she said.
Bondi noted that cocaine is often laid out of fentanyl, causing thousands of lost American lives. Secretary of State Marco Rubio frequently criticized Maduro, who, according to him, is not the legitimate leader of the South American nation following a disputed electoral victory in 2024.
“A year since the dictator Nicolás Maduro challenged the will of the Venezuelan people by declaring themselves without foundation, the United States remains firm in its unwavering support for the restoration by Venezuela of democratic and justice,” said Rubio last month. “Maduro is not the president of Venezuela and his regime is not the legitimate government.”
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The Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Thursday a reward of $ 50 million for information leading to the arrest of the Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. (Getty Images)
“Maduro is the chief of the organization designated narco-terrorist cartel in Los Soles, and he is responsible for trafficking drugs in the United States and Europe,” continued Rubio. “Maduro, currently charged by our nation, has corrupted Venezuela institutions to help the Cartel Narco traffic program in the United States.”
In January, the State Department announced a reward of $ 25 million for the arrest of Muduro.
The agency said that Muduro had participated in a violent conspiracy of narco-terrorism with the Revolutionary Armed Forces in Colombia (FARC), an designated foreign terrorist organization. In addition, Maduro has negotiated multiple cocaine expeditions produced by the FARC; ordered the Suns cartel to provide military quality weapons to the FARC; Coordinated with drug traffickers in Honduras and other countries to facilitate large -scale drug trafficking; And asked the assistance of the FARC leadership in the formation of an unauthorized militia group which worked, in substance, as a unit of the armed forces for the Suns cartel.
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In addition to the accusations against him, the Ministry of Justice has entered into more than $ 700 million in Maduro, including two private and nine vehicles, said Bondi.
