Maduro, who claimed to win re-election last year, first assumed power in 2013 after the death of Hugo Chavez. Maduro, who was vice president at the time, has since clung to power thanks to crooked elections, kidnapping, torture, and murder.
He is also accused of doubling as a notorious narco boss who works with international gangs and cartels to traffic cocaine. Back in 2020, a federal grand jury in Manhattan indicted him for narco-terrorism.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi this week announced Maduro’s bounty, which was $25 million during the Biden administration, was being increased to $50 million for his arrest.
Humberto Fontova, who escaped Fidel Castro's Cuban regime in 1961, has become an expert on democracy and Latin America. He predicts Maduro’s days as president are numbered because the Trump administration seems determined to push him out.
“I really believe it because of the people that are in office in the U.S.,” Fontova tells AFN. “Keep your eyes on Pam Bondi and Marco Rubio. I think they're the key to this issue."
In an interview on Fox News, Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado similarly said pressure is building for Maduro's ouster.
"Venezuela is united,” she insisted. “The elected government is ready to take over power."
