The United States has increased the amount of money it will provide for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro.

It said it would award $25 million to for information leading to Maduro’s arrest. It made the announcement on the day the dictator was sworn in for his third term in office.

The charges date back to 2020, when the US accused Maduro of engaging in “narco-terrorism”.

Award money has also been offered for information on other high-ranking Venezuelan officials.

The US is not the only country to sanction Venezuela, with the UK, EU, and Canada all imposing restrictions on the country or high-level officials.

Maduro won a presidential election last year, which most observers believe was significantly flawed.

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Marius Roodt is currently deputy editor of the Daily Friend and also consults on IRR campaigns. This is his second stint at the Institute, having returned after spells working at the Centre for Development and Enterprise and a Johannesburg-based management consultancy. He has also previously worked as a journalist, an analyst for a number of foreign governments, and spent most of 2005 and 2006 driving a scooter around London. Roodt holds an honours degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg) and an MA in Political Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand.