Helicopters Over the Gold Belt: How Venezuela Is Clearing Its Mines for Foreign Capital
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The video, taken from the air, shows a modest construction of green roof in a clearing of the jungle of southeastern Venezuela. And, as in the dozens of recordings that Donald Trump has broadcast in the last year of alleged narco-lanches jumping through the air in the Caribbean Sea, the house disintegrates from a missile. The black smoke column rose over the trees and was visible miles away. Ten seconds is what was needed to kill Hector Rusthenf…
Helicopters Over the Gold Belt: How Venezuela Is Clearing Its Mines for Foreign Capital
A sweeping military operation in Bolívar state is emptying Venezuela's richest gold mines of the armed groups that ran them for years — coinciding, with surgical timing, with a U.S.-brokered opening of the sector to foreign capital.
The Venezuelan government confirmed that the state security agencies dismantled a criminal group operating in the state of Bolívar (south), adding that the operation was carried out in a "combined manner with the US." Caracas said it will continue to take the necessary measures to guarantee peace and protection for citizens.
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