Rick Scott calls for higher reward for Maduro: “Maybe something will happen”
Rick Scott, United States Senator for the state of Florida, believes that the capture of Nicolás Maduro may occur if the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) increases the reward from 15 million to 100 million dollars.
“Maybe something will happen,” said Rick Scott during the presentation of a bill to increase the reward for Maduro, held on Thursday.
“The bounty would be paid by the federal government using seized assets already being held from Maduro, Maduro regime officials, and their co-conspirators, not taxpayer funds,” said Rick Scott, co-author of the bill with Sen. Marco Rubio.
Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida): “If we raise the capture of Nicolás Maduro to 100 million dollars, maybe something will happen” https://t.co/WdRysN1eGT pic.twitter.com/RX54paTfEt
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The bill is called “Stop Maduro.” The U.S. congressmen stated that they seek to “maximize compensation so that the reward offered leads to the arrest and conviction of Maduro.”
If approved by Congress, the maximum reward amount will be increased to $100 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Nicolás Maduro.
“The time has come for Venezuela to break free from the illegitimate regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro. For years, I have urged the Biden-Harris administration to bring the full weight of the federal government to bear on ending the Maduro regime, but it has refused and continued its failed appeasement that has only enriched and emboldened Maduro and his puppet masters in Cuba at the expense of the Venezuelan people,” Scott said Thursday, September 19.
Rubio said that “the United States must do more to stop the narco-dictator Nicolás Maduro.”
“I have asked Interpol to issue a red notice to facilitate this and this legislation is based on that request,” he added. Both Scott and Rubio, both Republicans, have been speaking out for years against the Maduro administration and in favor of a transition to democracy in Venezuela.
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