US doubles reward for arrest of Venezuela’s President Maduro to $50m

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro waves outside a polling station after voting in Venezuela's mayoral and council elections, in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 27, 2025 [Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters]

The United States has offered a $50m reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, doubling an earlier reward of $25m set by the Trump administration in January.

The US has accused the Venezuelan leader of being one of the world’s leading narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine.