Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela, now has a HUGE bounty on his head courtesy of President Trump. $50 million is a significant chunk of change. And it’s for a very good reason. 

The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the U.S. with fentanyl-laced cocaine.

Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if he was FUNDING the narco-traffickers. The drug problem is very serious, even more so since the Biden Administration opened our borders and let 20 million illegals pour into this country during his term. Among them were drug runners and gang members. Much of the fentanyl in this country can be directly traced back to Venezuela. 

That country has been a cesspit for a very long time. There was a slim chance of a power change, but then Maduro bought the election and that was that. Keep in mind, not only has Maduro been involved with cartels and their drug trafficking, he’s been cozy with Cuba and Iran for years. 

What did the Biden Administration do with the first year of taking office? Turned a blind eye to the Iranian warships that went to Venezuela in 2021. 

Granted, the Biden Administration DID increase the bounty on Maduro’s head. 

The State Department, under former President Joe Biden, raised the bounty to $25 million on Jan. 10, which the Trump administration doubled on Thursday.

But then the Biden Administration went hat in hand to Maduro to beg for oil after draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. So essentially Maduro was laughing in their faces and making bank off American taxpayers.

Despite the big bounty, Maduro remains entrenched after defying the U.S., the European Union and several Latin American governments who condemned his 2024 reelection as a sham and recognized his opponent as Venezuela’s duly elected president.

Last month, the Trump administration struck a deal to secure the release of 10 Americans jailed in Caracas in exchange for Venezuela getting home scores of migrants deported by the United States to El Salvador under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Shortly after, the White House reversed course and allowed U.S. oil producer Chevron to resume drilling in Venezuela after it was previously blocked by U.S. sanctions.

The thing is, Maduro is not only enabling fentanyl, cocaine, and other drugs flowing into the United States, the gangs are a major problem as well. Especially Tren de Aragua, Sinola and other gangs.

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As we’ve written multiple times, Americans have been harassed, threatened, attacked, and killed by these gangs. Maduro and his henchmen must answer for that as well. 

Cartel of the Suns is a Venezuelan drug-trafficking organization comprised of high-ranking Venezuelan officials. In March 2020, Maduro was charged in a federal indictment with narco-terrorism, conspiracy to import cocaine, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.

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“One year since dictator Nicolás Maduro defied the will of the Venezuelan people by baselessly declaring himself the winner, the United States remains firm in its unwavering support to Venezuela’s restoration of democratic order and justice,” Rubio said last month. “Maduro is not the President of Venezuela and his regime is not the legitimate government.”

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“Maduro, currently indicted by our nation, has corrupted Venezuela’s institutions to assist the cartel’s criminal narco-trafficking scheme into the United States.”

Given we’ve had several judges take up for illegals, set them free, harbor them, or try to stop their deportations …any bets on who will try to put an injunction against this bounty? 

The "Cartel de los Soles" is a loose network of corrupt Venezuelan military and government officials active in international drug trafficking, particularly cocaine smuggling from Colombia through Venezuela to the USA and Europe, since the late 1990s. It is not a hierarchical…

— baudusau (@baudusau) August 8, 2025

What will Maduro’s reaction be? He did get kind of testy with the travel sanctions were imposed. 

The fact is, Nicolas Maduro is a dictator of the worst kind. He’s also the leader of a country that has sent drugs and criminal gangs to this country. No one here in the U.S. should ignore or dismiss that fact. 

President Trump and his Administration refuse to ignore or dismiss that fact. They’ve worked to track down the gangs, drug traffickers and other criminals. They’ve worked to bring Americans wrongly imprisoned, home. And they are calling a spade a spade. Nicolas Maduro, whom Mike Pompeo took to the woodshed during Trump’s first Administration, is one very bad dude and if it means handing out $50 million to those who capture him? It’s money well spent. 

Feature Photo Credit: Maduro in 2013 via Flickr, cropped and modified