Fifty million dollar bounty on Nicolas Maduro's head

How Nicolas Maduro has survived for so long as president of Venezuela is hard to fathom when the United States thinks he is a major drug trafficker and nearly every impoverished citizen of that desperate country hates him. He is a monster of a leader and should have been behind bars a long time ago. He has destroyed his country and put fear into its population, driving hundreds of thousands of people to leave the country and find succour almost anywhere else in central and south America. Now Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, has upped the bounty for his arrest from $25 million to $50 million. Surely that will provide enough incentive for someone to plot his arrest. But, as with all dictators, Maduro is protected by a well-paid army and police force whose livelihoods are dependent on staying loyal to him. Previous coup attempts, whether engineered from overseas or from within Venezuela, have all failed. Donald Trump has probably had thoughts about sending in the Marines to grab him but so far has kept such a plan on the shelf. So the $50 million bounty is seen as the next best thing to root this dictator out of his luxury palace and see him taken away in handcuffs. The whole of Venezuela, except the military and police, would applaud.