India, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Government has doubled a reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Under its Narcotics Rewards Program, the Department of State had already offered a reward of $25 million for the capture of Maduro.
Thursday, the Department of State and the Department of Justice jointly announced that the reward has been increased to up to $50 million for violating U.S. narcotics laws.
For more than a decade, Maduro has been a leader of Cartel de los Soles, which is responsible for trafficking drugs into the United States. On July 25, the Department of the Treasury designated Cartel de Los Soles as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco...