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PROTESTERS will gather at the Bank of England on Thursday to demand the bank gives Venezuela back its 31 tonnes of gold, worth almost £1 billion.
The Venezuela Solidarity Campaign, which has organised the demonstration, says that Juan Guaido, the right-wing pretender to socialist leader Nicolas Maduro’s presidency of the country, has written to British Prime Minister Theresa May to request that she send the gold to him instead.
Campaign vice-chair and GFTU general secretary Doug Nicholls said: “Piracy seems to be up and running at the Bank of England.
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