{"id":501631,"date":"2026-03-06T14:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/united-states-authorizes-its-companies-to-trade-gold-from-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T14:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T18:34:48","slug":"united-states-authorizes-its-companies-to-trade-gold-from-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/united-states-authorizes-its-companies-to-trade-gold-from-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"United States authorizes its companies to trade gold from Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Miami.- The United States Department of the Treasury<\/strong> issued a license this Friday authorizing certain activities related to the exploitation and commercialization of Venezuelan gold by US companies, a sector that until now was subject to sanctions.\n\nThe announcement comes a day after the meeting in <strong>Caracas<\/strong> between the interim Venezuelan president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, and the US Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Venezuela calls &quot;imperial madness&quot; that DR authorizes the US to use airports\">http:\/\/Venezuela calls &#8220;imperial madness&#8221; that DR authorizes the US to use airports<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nGeneral License 51 allows U.S. companies to purchase, transport, and resell gold of Venezuelan origin, even in transactions involving the Government of Venezuela or the Compa\u00f1\u00eda General de Miner\u00eda de Venezuela (Minerven).\n\nThe authorization also covers logistics services, insurance, and transportation linked to the trade of that metal.\n\nThe document states that contracts arising from these operations shall be governed by the laws of the United States and that any legal dispute shall be resolved in U.S. courts.\n\nLikewise, payments to be made to Venezuelan entities sanctioned by <strong>Washington<\/strong> will not be made directly, but must be channeled through a fund controlled by the <strong>Department of the Treasury.<\/strong>\n\nBurgum traveled to Caracas on Thursday accompanied by representatives of the mining sector and met with Rodr\u00edguez, after which he announced that Washington would soon issue licenses to facilitate operations in the country.\n\nFor his part, the president of the Venezuelan National Assembly, the Chavista Jorge Rodr\u00edguez, brother of the interim president, reported on Monday that the Mining Law is already under review with the aim of urgently reforming it and opening the sector to foreign investment, as already happened with the Hydrocarbons Law and the oil sector.\n\nThursday also saw the official restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and Venezuela announced, just two months after the US operation that led to the capture of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diplomatic ties between both countries remained broken since early 2019, during Donald Trump&#8217;s first term, when Washington recognized the opposition leader and then-president of the Parliament, Juan Guaid\u00f3, as interim president, which led the Maduro government to break relations with the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami.- The United States Department of the Treasury issued a license this Friday authorizing certain activities related to the exploitation and commercialization of Venezuelan gold by US companies, a sector that until now was subject to sanctions. The announcement comes a day after the meeting in Caracas between the interim Venezuelan president, Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[40230,110],"class_list":["post-501631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26uP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}