U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has reminded the residents of Venezuela of the $15 million reward provided by the U.S. authorities for data resulting in the seize of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
This announcement comes within the wake of widespread allegations of election fraud throughout Venezuela’s current presidential elections, which have been condemned internationally.
The Gateway Hispanic reported:
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo González, accompanied by María Corina Machado, spoke at the moment at a press convention and acknowledged that they’ve the proof they wanted to show that Edmundo was the winner of the nation’s long-awaited presidential elections.
María Corina Machado acknowledged that Nicolás Maduro obtained 2.7 million votes and Edmundo González greater than 6 million votes.
As they spoke, hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of many cities in Venezuela to protest and denounce that the regime had stolen as soon as once more the election by which each candidates claimed victory.
Later within the day, the regime blocked the hyperlink to the opposition social gathering’s web site the place they provided their proof of the stolen election.
Right here is the total hyperlink: https://t.co/M7tPcuR71z it seems to be like they’ve already blocked entry to the web page with the opposition’s databases and votes in Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/jJnxgAvHG5
— Gateway Hispanic (@GatewayHispanic) July 30, 2024
On Monday, a bunch of U.S. Senators and Representatives headed by Sen. Marco Rubio got here collectively to denounce the current presidential election in Venezuela, labeling it a fraudulent and illegitimate train orchestrated by the Maduro regime.
The coalition consists of Invoice Cassidy (R-LA), John Kennedy (R-LA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Peter Welch (D-VT), Rick Scott (R-FL), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Tim Scott (R-SC). They’re joined by Representatives Carlos Giménez (R-FL), Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR), María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL).
Of their joint assertion, the lawmakers declared:
“To nobody’s shock, dictator Nicolás Maduro has as soon as once more stolen a presidential election. Nonetheless, what the narco-regime won’t ever steal is the Venezuelan individuals’s need to return to democracy and dwell in freedom after a long time of tyranny. We should prioritize uniting the free world in rejecting these sham election outcomes and securing the discharge of the greater than 300 Venezuelans that stay arbitrarily detained in torture facilities as political prisoners.
“The Maduro dictatorship is experiencing an inner fracture, and members of the dictatorship know their established order, which is full of incompetence, is not sustainable. There’s large discontent within the streets of Venezuela, and on a regular basis residents have stood in help of opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo Gonzalez. Let there be little doubt: the international locations and worldwide organizations backing this fraud of unimaginable proportions have to be held accountable, as ought to members of the narco-regime and its ‘Nationwide Electoral Council’.”
Senator Rubio, a long-time critic of Maduro, modified his profile image on X to remind the Venezuelans of the $15 million reward provided by the US for data resulting in the seize and prosecution of Maduro.
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— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 30, 2024
Since 2020, the U.S. authorities has established a reward of as much as $15 million for data resulting in the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro. This was a part of a broader indictment issued by the U.S. Division of Justice in opposition to Maduro and a number of other different high-ranking Venezuelan officers, accusing them of narco-terrorism and drug trafficking conspiracies.
In keeping with the State Division:
Since 2019, greater than 50 international locations, together with the US, have refused to acknowledge Maduro as Venezuela’s head of state.
Maduro helped handle, and in the end, lead the Cartel of the Suns, a Venezuelan drug-trafficking group comprised of high-ranking Venezuelan officers, as he gained energy in Venezuela in a corrupt and violent narco-terrorism conspiracy with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a chosen International Terrorist Group. Maduro negotiated multi-ton shipments of FARC-produced cocaine; directed the Cartel of the Suns to supply military-grade weapons to the FARC; throughout his tenure as International Minister coordinated international affairs with Honduras and different international locations to facilitate large-scale drug trafficking; and solicited help from FARC management in coaching an unsanctioned militia group that functioned, in essence, as an armed forces unit for the Cartel of the Suns.
Maduro was charged in a March 2020 Southern District of New York federal indictment for narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine weapons and harmful units, and conspiracy to own machine weapons and harmful units in violation of Title 21 U.S.C. §§ 960a and 963, and 18 U.S.C. § 924.
The U.S. Division of State is providing a REWARD OF UP TO $15 MILLION for data resulting in the arrest and/or conviction of Nicolás Maduro Moros.
“7 years in the past the Maduro regime started to accomplice with felony avenue gangs referred to as “colectivos” They permit these gangs to hold out their felony actions with impunity In return the gangs conform to terrorize political opponents of the regime when referred to as upon,” in accordance to Rubio.
Sen. Rubio additionally launched “the charming Diosdado Cabello,” the Venezuelan Minister of Drug Trafficking and Corruption.
“For these new to the difficulty of #Venezuela let me introduce you to the charming Diosdado Cabello, Minister of Drug Trafficking and Corruption. In partnership with excessive rating generals he runs the “Cartel de los Soles.” $10 million out there to anybody who will help make him a resident of the U.S. federal jail system,” Sen. Rubio wrote.
For these new to the difficulty of #Venezuela let me introduce you to the charming Diosdado Cabello, Minister of Drug Trafficking and Corruption
In partnership with excessive rating generals he runs the “Cartel de los Soles”
$10 million out there to anybody who will help make him a… pic.twitter.com/8CipwHR1v7
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) July 30, 2024
