The United States will offer $15 million for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on drug-trafficking charges, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday.

Pompeo announced the reward as the Justice Department unveiled charges against Maduro, describing him like a common criminal rather than a head of state as Washington tries to help opposition leader Juan Guaido take power.

“The Venezuelan people deserve a transparent, responsible, representative government that serves the needs of the people — and that does not betray the trust of the people by condoning or employing public officials that engage in illicit narcotics trafficking,” Pompeo said in a statement.

President Nicolás Maduro United States involvement accusations

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed Venezuela with Brazil's new president Jair Bolsonaro in January 2019
In early 2015, the Maduro government accused the United States of attempting to overthrow him. The Venezuelan government performed elaborate actions to respond to such alleged attempts and to convince the public that its claims were true.

The reactions included the arrest of Antonio Ledezma in February 2015, forcing American tourists to go through travel requirements and holding military marches and public exercises "for the first time in Venezuela's democratic history". After the United States ordered sanctions to be placed on seven Venezuelan officials for human rights violations, Maduro used anti-U.S. rhetoric to bump up his approval ratings.

However, according to Venezuelan political scientist Isabella Picón, only about 15% of Venezuelans believed in the alleged coup attempt accusations at the time.

In 2016, Maduro again claimed that the United States was attempting to assist the opposition with a coup attempt. On 12 January 2016, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, threatened to invoke the Inter-American Democratic Charter, an instrument used to defend democracy in the Americas when threatened, when opposition National Assembly member were barred from taking their seats by the Maduro-aligned Supreme Court...FULL Detail

Good for him. I remember he's been on US list for a while now

A wanted President?

cRobo:
A wanted President?

this is funny

Jokers..

Putin is behind Maduro Marose

Guiado is only wasting his time after several failure attempts to seize power

USA

The world No 1 Bully.

A serving president for crying out loud.

This could lead to a coup.

This could also lead to unrest.

This is interfering in another country's election, same thing they are accusing Russia of.

Trump my man got this one wrong.

Trump is creating a diversion and trying to score cheap points.

In the center of the pandemic befalling the US, which is glaring he has lost control, he is just trying to cover up his incompetency.

Don't fall for it

What did this guy not agree to for this to happen nah?

Some people feel they own life.

They should arrest our darling daddy too and his cohorts.

This is unfathomable, Can they declare
President Buhari wntd?

Haaaa A presido is wanted this is new sha

they suppose to place the bounty on coronavirus ,

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CoronaVirusPro:
Trump is creating a diversion and trying to score cheap points.

In the center of the pandemic befalling the US, which is glaring he has lost control, he is just trying to cover up his incompetency.

Don't fall for it

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