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Cartagena.- U.S. Senator Bernie Moreno assured this Thursday in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias that Nicolás Maduro will not be in the Presidency of Venezuela in December and warned that the Caribbean country deserves a leader who cares about its people.
"We will not tolerate a narco-terrorist who inflicts harm on the United States. We will treat terrorists as the U.S. has treated them in the past. I don't see him in office beyond the end of this year", Moreno expressed.
Last week on Thursday, the United States Government offered a new reward of 50 million dollars for Maduro.
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The United States accused the Venezuelan ruler in 2020, during the first presidency of Donald Trump, of drug trafficking and terrorism offenses, and in January 2025, the current Administration increased the reward for his capture to 25 million dollars. "Maduro uses foreign terrorist organizations such as Sinaloa and the Cartel de los Soles to introduce lethal drugs and violence into our country", stated last week the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi. In that sense, Senator Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, stated this Thursday that "Venezuela deserves a leader who cares about the people of the country." "We have designated him as a terrorist, we are offering a reward of 50 million for his capture, it's double the reward we had for Osama Bin Laden. We have deployed Navy ships in the Caribbean and the lower Gulf of America (of Mexico)," Moreno expressed. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump designated eight Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations, issued more than 150 federal arrest warrants for drug trafficking and terrorism, and deployed more than 5,000 military personnel on the southern border and the Caribbean, according to official data.
