🚨 BREAKING: Venezuela’s Hidden Gold Trail Revealed

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Between 2013 and 2016, as Nicolás Maduro was settling into power, **Venezuela secretly shipped 113 metric tons of gold — worth about $5.2 billion — to Switzerland. This gold came straight from Venezuela’s central bank reserves at a time when the government was desperate for money to support its collapsing economy.

Switzerland is one of the world’s biggest gold refining hubs, and the gold was likely sent there to be processed, certified, and sold on global markets. But these massive shipments abruptly stopped in 2017 after the European Union imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials.

This story shows just how deep Venezuela’s economic crisis had become under Maduro — selling huge amounts of national reserves just to raise cash — and it raises new questions about where the money went and how it was used. It’s a dramatic chapter in Venezuela’s recent history that many people didn’t know until now.