MIAMI.- Republican Senator Rick Scott revealed this Friday, September 20, that last week he held a meeting with former US military man Erik Prince, founder of the private military company Academy (before Blackwater), who leads a movement that aims to achieve the liberation of Venezuela.
According to Scott’s statements, it was the businessman and former US military man, who is currently part of the “Almost Venezuela” movement, who proposed raising the reward for the capture of Nicolás Maduro from 15 to 100 million dollars and so on. Efforts to return democracy to the South American country could be expedited.
“If we increase the bet to reach Maduro to 100 million dollars, maybe something will happen”Prince reportedly told the Florida senator.
Rick Scott leads proposal to increase reward for Maduro
From this meeting with Prince arose the bill that Scott is currently leading together with Florida Senator Marco Rubio and a group of Republican congressmen, which proposes increasing the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Maduro, offered by the Administration to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2020, under the government of former president and presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The bill Securing Timely Opportunities for Payment and Maximizing Awards for Detaining Unlawful Regime Officials (STOP MADURO)guarantees timely payment opportunities and maximizes compensation for arresting illegal officials of the Spanish regime, contemplates increasing compensation to those who collaborate with the capture of Maduro without touching the money of American taxpayers.
“It’s going to take money that doesn’t come from taxpayers, money that we have confiscated from Maduro and his croniesand we are going to raise the bar from 15 to 100 million dollars. “We are going to arrest this guy,” he said.
The former governor of Florida recalled that Maduro “is a drug trafficker” that is “trying to steal” the presidential elections of July 28, in which the opponent Edmundo González Urrutia was elected with more than seven million votes, according to the electoral records sent by witnesses and polling station members to the democratic opposition. “The way he treats Venezuelans is despicable,” he said.
Almost Venezuela
The proposal to raise the reward for Maduro to the maximum of 100 million dollars is part of the strategies that seek to pressure the departure of the Venezuelan dictator, who insists on clinging to power through state terrorism, denounced by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. (IACHR).
Maduro is accused by the US Prosecutor’s Office for his links with the Venezuelan drug trafficking organization Cartel de los Soles, through which since Chavismo came to power in 1999, They “flooded” the US with “tons of cocaine”in alliance with the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), to “undermine the health and well-being” of the country. In addition, he is being investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for human rights violations and crimes against humanity committed since 2014.
In the midst of the turbulent scenario that Venezuela is experiencing, at the beginning of this week the libertarian movement “Almost Venezuela” urged “patriotic, brave and willing to collaborate” Venezuelans to donate money to achieve “the fall of the regime” of Maduro.
This group was promoted by well-known figures in Venezuelan politics, such as Commissioner Iván Simonovis, a former political prisoner of the dictatorship, and would have among its objectives to put an end to tyranny to achieve the change that Venezuelans voted for in the last elections. Although they do not offer details of the plan, they assure that it will serve to “reestablish decency, justice and representative government” in the oil country.
“Venezuela, you voted on July 28 for freedom. Now, the time has come to vote with dollars. Democracy will prevail“Prince emphasized in a video published on the Ya Almost Venezuela social network, without explaining what his role in the movement would be.
