[detective]

Maduro's government has resorted to selling off gold after falling oil production, the country's wider economic collapse and mounting sanctions hit public income and made it hard for the country to access credit.

[rightwingcrazy]

About $300 million. It won’t last him very long.

[onona]

Cue the fat lady

[Fungi]

It’s going into Maduro’s bank account. He knows his days are numbered.

[Steely Tom]

A Russian aircraft took away something like 22 tons of Venezuelan gold just a few weeks ago.

[Steely Tom]

Apparently Maduro’s attempt to ship 20 tons of Venezuelan gold out of the country, which became public on February 2 of this year, was called off due to international pressure, which consisted largely of US sanctions.

A week before the attempted 20-ton move (worth about $850 million), the Bank of England had denied a request from Maduro to withdraw $1.2B worth of bullion.

[guyman]

Unless we invade with the airborne Rangers and kill Maduro and those that enable him, he will be leader of Venezuela a long long time, just like Castro. He who has the guns, rules. all this cia sponsored food for peace crap never works against communists. Silly.

[chuckee]

Probably Maduro is shipping it to China in anticipation of his fleeing there and joining up with it. China will shield him from the West

[livius]

That’s what was done by the Spanish Commies (aka, “Republicans” in an attempt to make them sound legitimate and respectable). They shipped out all of the Spanish gold reserves directly from Valencia to the USSR. Later the leftists said that it was for weapons purchases, and indeed the Russians sent them some weapons..from the Crimean War.

The USSR directly controlled the “Republican”” forces in Spain. The commanders in Barcelona and Valencia were RussIan.

In any case, they always want to get the gold.

[sparklite2]

All the gold from Venezuela
is in a bank in the middle of Istanbul
in Nick Maduro’s name.

So if you thinkin’ about Venezuela
it don’t matter how many bolivars you got,
toilet paper’s your claim to fame.

[moovova]

He’s lining his nest...in Moscow.

[Vermont Lt]

Yes, they will sell it to help “the currency crisis.”

Maduro’s currency crisis perhaps. But not Venezuela’s.

[Billthedrill]

Maduro needs to make his escape, but where? It would have to be somewhere utterly corrupt, where there is no law, where bribery and graft abound, where properly connected people may murder and no one is called to account, where there are fat cats and money launderers and dishonest bankers and greasy lawyers and crooked cops, and lies, sexual perversion, and villainy rule the day.

Washington DC sounds about right. Look for him to be condo-shopping in Georgetown.

[mrsmith]

"Halfway there boys!"