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It was 2014 and Venezuela’s former treasurer Claudia Díaz was looking for a safe haven to store the unexplained wealth she had accumulated over the years. Then-president Hugo Chávez, who she once served as a nurse, had recently died and with the election of Nicolás Maduro, the nation’s politics and relations with the US were in tumult. So Díaz allegedly turned to one of the oldest ways of moving vast sums of money anonymously: buying gold. By Joshua Goldman. Full Text -> Stuff
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