Venezuela has been mining for a while
Discussion
Has the government confirmed it?
They do it at least partially with miners they stole (confiscated) from people, so they didn’t exactly have a press release about it.
The government is less interested in public opinion and more on lining their pockets and evading sanctions
One of the first if not the first country that instituted a body to regulate the industry called SUNACRIP. It’s corrupt af of course, at least last I checked a few years ago