Maduro uses terrorist-designated drug cartels, including the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, to smuggle deadly drugs into the US, says US Justice Minister Pam Bondi in a video statement published on X.
He is one of the world's largest drug dealers and a threat to our national security, says Bondi.
She claims that the US federal narcotics police (DEA) on Friday seized 30 tons of cocaine linked to Maduro and his associates, of which seven tons are linked to Maduro personally.
American authorities have seized over 700 million dollars of Maduro-linked assets, including two private planes, she says further.
Yet Maduro's reign of terror continues. He is one of the world's largest drug dealers and a threat to our national security.
The US had previously announced a reward of 25 million dollars. Today's announcement is thus a doubling of the reward, which now corresponds to just over 477 million kronor.
Venezuela is under harsh sanctions from Washington and Maduro, who came to power in 2013, has repeatedly claimed over the years that the US is trying to oust him. The authoritarian president and his socialist party have clung to power through elections whose results have been questioned by the international community, including the EU, the US and the UN.
