The U.S. government increased the rewards Friday for the capture of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro and his number two, Diosdado Cabello, to $25 million each, minutes after it said the dictator was “fraudulently” sworn in for a third presidential term.

The Biden administration has issued significant rewards for top Venezuelan officials, citing crimes like drug trafficking and undermining democracy.

Maduro’s inauguration seals an election outcome that opposition politicians and the US government say was stolen.

The United States will also extend temporary protections for roughly 600,000 Venezuelan migrants in the United States.

Venezuelans once again watched as Nicolás Maduro was sworn into office on Friday, donning the executive sash and declaring himself president despite irregularities and questions around his election.

Maximum rewards for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Maduro -- as well as his interior secretary Diosdado Cabello -- were being raised ... "key economic and security agencies enabling Nicolas Maduro's repression and subversion of ...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro waves after being sworn in ... to the arrest of Maduro and his minister of interior, Diosdado Cabello, both accused of running a drug-trafficking ring.

President-elect Donald Trump says Venezuela's embattled opposition leader must be protected as President Nicolas Maduro takes the oath of office for a third six-year term.

Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a third presidential term on Friday, despite overwhelming evidence that he lost July’s presidential election to opposition leader Edmundo González,

Fearing that opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez will return to Venezuela this week as promised, strongman Nicolás Maduro has mobilized the country’s military, sending soldiers to patrol the streets in major cities and carrying out new arrests of opponents or individuals he calls mercenaries.

She’s risking her life by fighting the Venezuelan regime and was briefly held by armed goons.

Yesterday, opposition leader María Corina Machado posted a video on social media saying the moment was not right for his return. Recorded in hiding, she promised: “Edmundo will come to Venezuela to be sworn in as constitutional president of Venezuela at the right time.”