**THE LOOTED WEALTH TURNED OUT TO BE USELESS TO THE US, — NYT**

**Venezuelan gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, imported into the US** under an agreement supported by the Trump administration, **is being stockpiled and left unused**.

Processing **companies refuse to work with it out of fears that it may be linked to criminal gangs**, corruption, and environmental damage.

The publication writes that **the state mining company Minerven is linked to miners who pay "tribute" to the criminal gang** Tren de Guayana.

At the same time, the White House claims that **this deal will help "clean up" Venezuela's mining industry.**

_The typical U.S policy in action. Nothing has been changed_.

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