If Maduro is able to get his hands on [the $1.8 billion in gold bars], it weakens a significant tool that the British government has toward implementing its recognition of Guaidó. It undermines the strength of that policy. […] Maduro was trying to get that money for himself before he came back with the fresh claim it was for Covid-19 relief.
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