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Trump admin announces $50M reward for capture of Venezuela dictator Nicolás Maduro
New York Post ^ | Aug. 7, 2025 | Victor Nava

Posted on 08/07/2025 7:44:36 PM PDT by T Ruth

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday offered a $50 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.

“Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations like [Tren de Aragua], Sinaloa and Cartel of the Suns to bring deadly drugs and violence into our country,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a video posted on X.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has thus far seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, Bondi said, and “nearly seven tons linked to Maduro himself, which represents a primary source of income for the deadly cartels based in Venezuela and Mexico.”

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The attorney general noted that cocaine linked to Maduro’s smuggling scheme “is often laced with fentanyl” and has resulted in “the loss and destruction of countless American lives.”

In March 2020, Maduro, 62, was hit with a slew of federal charges in the Southern District of New York related to his drug trafficking efforts, including narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.

Following the indictment, President Trump’s first term administration had initially offered a $15 million reward for his capture.

The State Department, under former President Joe Biden, raised the bounty to $25 million on Jan. 10, which the Trump administration doubled on Thursday.

“The DOJ has seized over $700 million of Maduro linked assets, including two private jets, nine vehicles and more. Yet Maduro’s reign of terror continues,” Bondi said.

“He is one of the largest narco traffickers in the world, and a threat to our national security,” she added.

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(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: maduro; sinaloa; trendearagua

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1 posted on 08/07/2025 7:44:36 PM PDT by T Ruth
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United States invasion of Panama
2 posted on 08/07/2025 7:51:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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3 posted on 08/07/2025 7:53:14 PM PDT by xp38
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Apparently DJT made a decision for regime change. He is going to outbid the competition.


4 posted on 08/07/2025 7:53:32 PM PDT by Salvavida
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Is this bigger than releasing the Kraken?


5 posted on 08/07/2025 7:53:45 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Maduro is just as wicked as Saddam Hussein was.


6 posted on 08/07/2025 7:53:52 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: T Ruth

Loomers says they know where he is


7 posted on 08/07/2025 7:56:30 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: T Ruth

I was not expecting this.


8 posted on 08/07/2025 7:59:28 PM PDT by lee martell
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9 posted on 08/07/2025 8:01:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: T Ruth

Reward was $25m, now its $50m


10 posted on 08/07/2025 8:02:59 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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President Trump is Superman! He’s knocking the foudations out from under the left. He has to find a way to take out the Mexican cartels.


11 posted on 08/07/2025 8:04:04 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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Give Maduro the Noriega treatment


12 posted on 08/07/2025 8:05:35 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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And looks like him too


13 posted on 08/07/2025 8:09:23 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: T Ruth

This is the way


14 posted on 08/07/2025 8:14:24 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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At this rate, with another 3.5 years to go, Trump could kick a lot of azz!


15 posted on 08/07/2025 8:14:24 PM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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The offer should be for Maduro “Dead or Alive.”


16 posted on 08/07/2025 8:25:02 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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Maduro may be the smartest leader on the planet.


17 posted on 08/07/2025 8:25:54 PM PDT by Owen
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To: T Ruth

Is that offer good: dead or alive?
Inquiring minds would like to know.


18 posted on 08/07/2025 8:27:22 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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So it’s “alive” only.

And the guy can sue if the handcuffs are too tight and he got bruised trying to kill you in the takedown. The United Nations and the World Court will have you in prison if anything isn’t just right.


19 posted on 08/07/2025 8:30:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Whoa!!


20 posted on 08/07/2025 8:31:58 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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