Nicholas Maduro was just sworn in for his third term as President of Venezuala. Maduro has been extremely unpopular with the Venezualan people during his tenure and practically all of his election victories since the Chavez regime have been called out as being fraudulent. He is essentially a dictator and has more or less eradicated any functioning sense of democratic legislature within the country and consolidated total control between him and his loyalists. The US and broader international community have been deeply opposed to his regime from the start and have been continuously hitting the country with sanctions, further deepening it's economic turmoil. Along with being a dictator, the US indicted Maduro in March 2020 on drug trafficking and "narco terrorism" charges. The claim is that Maduro and practically all of the top level members of his government are deeply entrenched in an international drug trafficking enterprise called "The Cartel of The Suns" (referring to the sun insignia that generals wear) that routinely ship hundreds of millions worth of cocaine and other drugs to Europe and the US. Obviously a state-sponsored drug cartel is a very big problem, so the US initially placed a $15 million bounty on his capture way back in 2020. Seeing that nothing has changed since then and Maduro has effectively solidified his power for the foreseeable future, the US have upped the bounty to presumably show that they're going to be taking a stronger stance for this term, at least as it relates to his drug trafficking involvement. Answer from manofblack_ on reddit.com