‼️🇺🇸🇻🇪 In early March of this year, US Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Caracas, accompanied by representatives from more than two dozen American mining companies, many of which had previously operated in Venezuela.
The message was unequivocal: American mining companies are going to gain access to Venezuela's strategic resources—gold, coltan, copper, diamonds, bauxite, and rare earths—which have become top-tier strategic assets, partly because Washington seeks to block China's path.
The signing of a contract was announced, mediated by Washington, between the Venezuelan state mining company Minerven and the commodities giant Trafigura for the purchase of between 650 and 1,000 kilograms of gold bullion with an approximate purity of 98 percent, a contract whose value is estimated at around 165 million dollars. Burgum himself later confirmed that the first physical shipment of Venezuelan gold, valued at 100 million dollars, had been received...