The Trump administration has doubled its reward to $50million for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, deeming him ‘one of the largest narco traffickers in the world’.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi provided a laundry list of accusations against Maduro in announcing the Justice Department and State Department’s ‘historic’ bounty for him on Thursday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration just seized 30 tons of cocaine tied to Maduro and his associates, with nearly seven tons linked to the dictator himself ‘which represents a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico’, said Bondi in a video shared on X.

Maduro uses terrorist organizations including Sinaloa, Cartel of the Suns and Tren de Aragua ‘to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country’, she said.

‘Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes,’ Bondi declared.

The Justice Department has seized more than $700million in assets traced back to Maduro, as well as two private jets and nine vehicle.

‘Yet Maduro’s reign of terror continues,’ the attorney general said.

Cocaine that is part of Maduro’s drug smuggling scheme often is laced with fentanyl and has caused ‘the loss and destruction of countless American lives’, Bondi said.

Anyone with information leading to busting Maduro should contact the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Maduro has remained Venezuela’s leader even though the US, EU and some Latin American countries determined that he lost his reelection bid last year.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil called the new reward ‘pathetic’ and a ‘crude political propaganda operation’.

He hit back at Bondi by bringing up her controversial about-face from saying that Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘client list’ was on her desk waiting to be released, to saying no such incriminating files exist.

‘We’re not surprised, coming from whom it comes from,’ stated Gil.

‘The same one who promised a nonexistent “secret list” of Epstein and who wallows in scandals for political favors.

‘Her show is a joke, a desperate distraction from her own misery.’

Maduro was indicted in 2020, during President Donald Trump’s first term, in Manhattan federal court on narco-terrorism and cocaine importation conspiracy charges. The US set a reward for him at $15million, and the Biden administration upped it to $25million.

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The Trump administration has doubled its reward to $50million for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, deeming him ‘one of the largest narco traffickers in the world’.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi provided a laundry list of accusations against Maduro in announcing the Justice Department and State Department’s ‘historic’ bounty for him on Thursday.

The Drug Enforcement Administration just seized 30 tons of cocaine tied to Maduro and his associates, with nearly seven tons linked to the dictator himself ‘which represents a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico’, said Bondi in a video shared on X.

Maduro uses terrorist organizations including Sinaloa, Cartel of the Suns and Tren de Aragua ‘to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country’, she said.

‘Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes,’ Bondi declared.

The Justice Department has seized more than $700million in assets traced back to Maduro, as well as two private jets and nine vehicle.

‘Yet Maduro’s reign of terror continues,’ the attorney general said.

Cocaine that is part of Maduro’s drug smuggling scheme often is laced with fentanyl and has caused ‘the loss and destruction of countless American lives’, Bondi said.

Anyone with information leading to busting Maduro should contact the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Maduro has remained Venezuela’s leader even though the US, EU and some Latin American countries determined that he lost his reelection bid last year.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil called the new reward ‘pathetic’ and a ‘crude political propaganda operation’.

He hit back at Bondi by bringing up her controversial about-face from saying that Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘client list’ was on her desk waiting to be released, to saying no such incriminating files exist.

‘We’re not surprised, coming from whom it comes from,’ stated Gil.

‘The same one who promised a nonexistent “secret list” of Epstein and who wallows in scandals for political favors.

‘Her show is a joke, a desperate distraction from her own misery.’

Maduro was indicted in 2020, during President Donald Trump’s first term, in Manhattan federal court on narco-terrorism and cocaine importation conspiracy charges. The US set a reward for him at $15million, and the Biden administration upped it to $25million.

Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk.

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