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Caracas, Venezuela.- The Bolivarian National Police Corps of Venezuela expressed this Sunday its loyalty to the ruler of the South American country, Nicolás Maduro, after the United States offered a reward of 50 million dollars in exchange for information leading to the arrest of the Chavista leader.
"Count on the weapons of the Bolivarian National Police to defend the revolution," stated the general commander of the institution, Rubén Santiago, in a video posted on his Instagram account.
The police chief called the measure announced by the U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who announced the reward and accused Maduro of using "foreign terrorist organizations such as Sinaloa and the Cartel de los Soles to introduce lethal drugs and violence" in the North American country, "infamous" and "unscrupulous".
"In a vile act, in a vulgar act, which tries to tarnish the supreme sovereignty that Venezuela has, they imposed a reward against our beloved and respected commander-in-chief, Nicolás Maduro," Santiago expressed, who repudiated, on behalf of "more than 93,000" officials, the measure against Maduro.
In recent days, several Venezuelan institutions, officials, and military bodies - in addition to Cuba, Bolivia, Iran, and Nicaragua - have spoken out in favor of Maduro and rejected the accusation of the United States Attorney General.
This Saturday, the commander of the Presidential Honor Guard and head of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM), Javier Marcano Tábata, stated that Bondi's declaration will go down in history as a "permanent monument to the lie and falsehood employed by the supremacist Government of the United States".
He also asserted that the accusation of drug trafficking by the United States is "an ignoble narrative that seeks to position a lie as truth" and expressed the loyalty of the institutions he leads by stating that they are "ready and willing" to "serve where Maduro considers" and in "any time" and "any circumstance".
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This Sunday, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado expressed confidence that the new reward for Maduro's capture will "quickly" help resolve the conflict in Venezuela and even motivate the president to leave the country.
