Foreign Digest: Venezuela and Colombia

Venezuela: The United States increased the reward to $50 million for the capture of Nicolas Maduro, the Socialist Venezuelan dictator, for drug trafficking charges. It also advised Americans not to travel to the South American State for any reason. The Socialist regime released some political prisoners and sent others to house arrest, but many others remain behind bars. Colombia: There were deadly attacks in different regions of Colombia by dissident holdouts of the Marxist narco-terrorists who had signed a peace deal in 2016 after a nearly 40-year-long rebellion. The elected leftist Colombian Government has launched a counteroffensive. The Government of the South American State has failed to end the insurgency, despite its attempts to negotiate with the dissidents. The narco-terrorists rely on trafficking cocaine. The cultivation of coca leaves has reached record levels in Colombia.