"Maria, a former Venezuelan prosecutor living in Houston, Texas, won't use the word "happy". But in August, when she saw that the United States had doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, she said she felt validated". The reward now sits at $50m, one of the highest bounties ever offered by the US government. To Maria, the bounty is a path to toppling a government steeped in human rights abuses, including arbitrary detention and torture."
"There's just an assumption that, once we get rid of the bad guy, things will be good, said Alex Downes, a political science professor at George Washington University. A tidy resolution, Downes warned, isn't likely. "Even when regime change is popular, that often doesn't happen because there are all kinds of underlying problems in the country. And the big danger in Venezuela is that the thing just falls apart.""
The US doubled its bounty to $50m for information leading to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's arrest. Maria, a former Venezuelan prosecutor now in Houston, said she felt validated and views the bounty as a path to toppling a government accused of arbitrary detention and torture; she fled Venezuela in 2017 and spoke under a pseudonym. The reward is among the highest ever offered by the US government. Some analysts caution that offering million-dollar rewards for Maduro's capture could backfire and deepen instability. Political scientist Alex Downes warned that removing a leader rarely produces a tidy resolution and risks the country falling apart.
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