{"id":240735,"date":"2026-03-05T14:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=240735"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:48:49","slug":"us-and-venezuela-sign-major-gold-sales-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240735\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Venezuela sign major gold sales deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Venezuela&rsquo;s &#8203;state-owned mining company has &zwnj;signed a multi-million-dollar deal to sell as much as 1,000 kg &#8203;of gold dore &#8203;bars to commodities trader Trafigura &#8288;for US markets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/trafigura-venezuelan-mining-firm-sign-deal-up-1000-kg-gold-axios-reports-2026-03-05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes, referring to Axios.<\/p>\n<p>US Interior Secretary &#8203;Doug &#8288;Burgum, who arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday, helped steer &#8288;the &#8203;gold contract, &#8203;according to the report.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venezuela&rsquo;s &#8203;state-owned mining company has &zwnj;signed a multi-million-dollar deal to sell as much as 1,000 kg &#8203;of gold dore &#8203;bars to commodities trader Trafigura &#8288;for US markets, Reuters writes, referring to Axios. US Interior Secretary &#8203;Doug &#8288;Burgum, who arrived in Venezuela on Wednesday, helped steer &#8288;the &#8203;gold contract, &#8203;according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":240638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240736,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240735\/revisions\/240736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}