Trump increases pressure on Venezuela with sanctions on gold

Trump signed an executive order to ban anyone in the United States from dealing with entities and people involved with "corrupt or deceptive" gold sales from Venezuela, Trump'snational security adviser John Bolton said in a speech in Miami."The Maduro regime has used this sector as a bastion to finance illicit activities, to fill its coffers, and to support criminal groups," Bolton said.Bolton made the announcement as part of a pledge to crack down on what he called "the troika of tyranny" in th