“Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday in a video announcing the new reward.<\/p>\n
Ms Bondi said the Justice Department has seized more than $700m in assets linked to Maduro, including two private jets, and said nearly seven tonnes of seized cocaine had been traced directly to the leftist leader.<\/p>\n
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Tap to follow<\/a><\/p>\n Venezuelan foreign minister Yvan Gil released a statement characterising the reward as “pathetic” and accusing Ms Bondi of orchestrating a “crude political propaganda operation”.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: “We’re not surprised, coming from whom it comes from.<\/p>\n “The same one who promised a nonexistent ‘secret list’ of Epstein and who wallows in scandals for political favours,” Mr Gil said, referring to the backlash Ms Bondi faced after the Justice Department announced last month that a long-rumoured “client list” of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a><\/strong> does not exist.<\/p>\n “Her show is a joke, a desperate distraction from her own misery.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US has doubled its award for the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to $50m (\u00a337.2m) as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-328792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114995087597364253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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