U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says

[Nasruddin]

16. Craton

Southern Venezuela, like Guyana, draws its map line over one of the biggest cratons of South America - this is some
really, really old earth crust and probably poorly explored. The tepuis, the famous mesas, setting for A C Doyle's "The Lost World",
are part of this.

Probably some really juicy minerals in this region, and it's no doubt completely out of control. Probably the real motivation
for what went down, the oil would make sense to the Boss but is a who-cares (well, it was until he screwed the pooch).
The real prize is what's next to the gold mines.