The United States announced this Thursday, August 7, after having doubled the premium for the arrest of Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, on Thursday, August 7, August 7, which Washington does not recognize.
“Today, the Ministry of Justice and the State Department announce a reward of $ 50 million for any information that leads to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro”, the Minister of Justice of the United States, Pam Bondi, the previous premium is $ 25 million.
Caracas responded quickly and described as “pathetic” this decision of the Government of Donald Trump. “We reject this gross political propaganda operation,” the Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yvan Gil, in a statement.
On January 10, ten days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the government of Democrat Joe Biden denounced the “simulation” and the “illegitimate” nature of Nicolas Maduro’s nominate, re -elected six months before a third mandate, for six years.
The then Secretary of State for the State of State, Antony Blinken and the United States Treasury had imposed new sanctions in Caracas, with 15 to 25 million dollars the prize for any information that allowed the Venezuelan leader to be taken before justice.
“Middle Circus”
Washington estimated that Nicolás “Maduro A (Vait) clearly lost the presidential elections of 2024 and does not have (vait) not the right to claim the presidency.” Antony Blinken’s successor, Republican Marco Rubio, resumed the same accusations on Thursday.
“Since 2020, Maduro has strangled democracy and has clung to power in Venezuela,” US diplomacy said in a statement.
The Venezuelan president, with the support of the army and an administration under orders, had lent an oath for a third six -year term during a ceremony qualified as “coup” by the opposition, which claims the victory in the presidential elections.
“While we dismantle the orchestrated terrorist conspiracies of her country, this lady comes out with a media circus to please the defeated right of Venezuela”, Minvan Gil, in response to Pam Bondi on Thursday.
The American Award placed on Thursday from 25 to 50 million dollars refers to all the information that leads to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro and its Interior Minister to be tried for “drug trafficking and corruption,” according to Washington. This accusation, in particular for participation and complicity of an international “drug trafficking”, dates back to 2020, at the end of Donald Trump’s first mandate.
Poster, criminal gang …
The US federal prosecutor’s office, which has already condemned several former US leaders in recent years, accuses Nicolas Maduro of being behind a poster that would have sent hundreds of tons of drugs to the United States for hundreds of millions of dollars. The US authorities suspect that the poster of having worked hand in hand with the Colombian organization of the FARC, which Washington considers as “terrorist.”
The Minister of Justice, finally, accused Nicolás Maduro of having collaborated with the Venezuelan Criminal Gang Train of Aragua and the Mexican Cartel Sinaloa. The US president wants to expel Nicolas Maduro from power and economically suffocate Venezuela. From his return to the White House, Donald Trump has significantly tightened the oil embargo, announcing that he would inflict additional customs duties to countries that buy Venezuelan oil.
The Government of Nicolás Maduro has long denounced an interference from the United States in Venezuelan affairs. His Interior Minister said Thursday that security services frustrated a bomb attack in Caracas, often accusing the opposition and the United States of being instigators. The authorities regularly denounce the real or imaginary plots aimed at destabilizing the country or overthrowing Nicolas Maduro.
Source: BFM TV
