{"id":52578,"date":"2025-01-10T21:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/u-s-offers-25-million-reward-for-arrest-of-venezuela-s-president-maduro\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T21:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T21:11:22","slug":"u-s-offers-25-million-reward-for-arrest-of-venezuela-s-president-maduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/u-s-offers-25-million-reward-for-arrest-of-venezuela-s-president-maduro\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. offers $25 million reward for arrest of Venezuela&#8217;s president Maduro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn solidarity with the Venezuelan people, the U.S. Government and our partners around the world are taking action today. The Department of State is increasing the reward offers to up to $25 million each for information leading to the arrests and\/or convictions of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and Maduro\u2019s Minister of Interior Diosdado Cabello,\u201d reads a statement by U.S. Department of State.  <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has also added a new reward offer of up to $15 million for Maduro\u2019s Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino L\u00f3pez.<\/p>\n<p>While only a few nations, including Russia, have recognized Maduro\u2019s victory in Venezuela\u2019s disputed July election, the Cuban and Nicaraguan presidents were reportedly the only foreign leaders present at his inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro rose to power following the death of socialist leader Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in 2013.<br \/>\nHe faces numerous allegations, including corruption, human rights abuses, and involvement in drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Maduro declared victory for a third term in July last year, but the United States and the European Parliament declared Maduro\u2019s opponent, Edmundo Gonz\u00e1lez, the &#8220;president-elect,&#8221; further challenging Maduro\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez, who fled Venezuela in September and is currently living in Spain, has embarked on a tour of the Americas to gain international backing. <\/p>\n<p>In response, the Maduro government has issued an arrest warrant for Gonz\u00e1lez and is offering a $100,000 reward for any information leading to his capture.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-80049\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ma-4.jpg\" alt=\"Venezuelan President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term on Friday, following a contentious election marked by claims of voter fraud.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has announced a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Venezuela&#8217;s president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro following his inauguration on Friday, January 10, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000080050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000080050,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ma.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ma.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ma.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ma.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ma.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/ma.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000080050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52578"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52578"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}