US offers a $ 50 million reward for Venezuela’s arrest Nicolas Maduro

The United States has doubled the award for the information led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $ 50 million (£ 37.2 million), accusing him of “one of the largest drug addicts”.

US President Donald Trump is a longtime critic Maduro, who returned to the post in January after the elections marked by the votes. The results were widely rejected by the international community.

Pami Prosecutor General said the US would double the announced award $ 25 million (£ 18.6 million)And he said that Maduro was directly related to drug smuggling operations.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Ivan Gill said the new award was “pathetic” and called it “political propaganda”.

“We are not surprised, comes from whom it comes,” Gill said, accusing Bondi of trying to “desperate” from headlines related to a return reaction to the return business Sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

During the first term Trump, the US government accused Maduro and other high-ranking Venezuelan officials of a number of crimes, including drug-terrorism, corruption and drug trafficking.

At the time, the US Department of Justice claimed that Maduro worked with the Colombian Insurgent Farc Group to “use cocaine as a weapon to” flood “the United States.

In a video posted on X on Thursday, Bondi accused Maduro of coordinating with groups such as the Trem de Aragua -Venezuelan gang, which the Trump administration announced a terrorist organization – and the Sinaloa Cartel, a powerful criminal network based in Mexico.

She stated that the U.S. Drug Administration (DEA) “confiscated 30 tons of cocaine related to Maduro and his associates, with almost seven tons related to Maduro himself.”

Earlier, Maduro dismissed us claims that he was directly involved in drug trafficking.

Bondi’s comments are an extension of long tensions between the US and Venezuelan government – but the Attorney General did not give any additional instructions on how the government provided for an updated appeal and monetary incentives.

Maduro – which is the leader of the United Socialist Party and changed Hugo Chavez in 2013 – repeatedly accused the repression of opposition groups and silence of dissent in Venezuela, including the use of violence.

He withstood the protests after the competition last year and retained power.

But in June, Hugo Kvagajal – formerly the head of Venezuela’s military exploration – was Condemned on several drug circulation charges After his arrest in Madrid and he handed over to the US.

Karvachal was afraid of the spitz, who went by the name of El Paul, or the chicken, but escaped Venezuela, calling the army to support the candidate in the opposition and overthrow Maduro.

Initially, he denied drug charges, but later changed his guilt to the guilt, assuming that he had made a deal with the US authorities for less punishment in exchange for foreign charges.

The UK and the EU have announced sanctions against the Maduro government after returning to the post earlier this year.