US Rep. Giménez Warns Venezuelan President Maduro He Must Leave ‘Before It’s Too Late’

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U.S. Rep. Carlos Giménez (R-Fla.), the congressman for Florida’s 28th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, sent a warning message to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Sept. 9.

“Maduro must leave before it’s too late. He still has time to hand the country over to its true and legitimate leaders,” Giménez wrote in a post on X.

In a subsequent post, Giménez, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, noted that the $50 million reward offered by the U.S. government for the capture of Maduro “is still available.”

“Get it while it lasts,” he said.

On July 29, 2024, the day after the elections, Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) officially declared Maduro the winner, allowing him to continue as president of Venezuela for a third term, without making the electoral records public.

Since then, Maduro’s political opposition has denied the results issued by the CNE, claiming that the electoral records obtained by its witnesses show presidential candidate Edmundo González as the winner with 67 percent of the vote.

The U.S.-based Carter Center, accepted by the Maduro government to observe the elections, stated in a report that it “cannot verify or corroborate the authenticity of the presidential election results declared by the CNE” because it took place in “an environment of restricted freedoms to the detriment of political actors, civil society organizations, and the media.”

Other organizations, such as Human Rights Watch, have reported a notable increase in arbitrary detentions, forced disappearances, and other crimes against humanity by the Maduro-led Venezuelan government against opposition members and Venezuelan citizens following the 2024 elections.

To date, nearly 7 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2018, when Maduro became president, according to refugee and immigrant organization R4V.

In recent weeks, the United States has deployed military forces in Latin American and Caribbean waters to block drug traffickers’ maritime routes, along with raising the reward to $50 million for the arrest of Maduro, whom the U.S. government accuses of leading the Cartel of the Suns, a narco-terrorist organization based in Venezuela.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, for his part, said in a statement in July that “Maduro is NOT the president of Venezuela, and his regime is NOT the legitimate government.”

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