Remember when Sanz took over CVG and started shaking the trees? GT made yet another dumb statement of "Sanz will walk into Chavez's office and say ISSUE THE PERMIT" - in effect GT telling Sanz to give Chavez an order. Not a good idea - and it was a press release so Chavez was aware of it. I'll bet Chavez thought "who do these gringo's think they are - this is MY country and a lesson need be learned. Ortega provided the lesson on 4/30/08. Fung has been in the background doing damage control and GT's exit was the start. Fung has the relationships with VZ & Chavez and he's the obvious one to put Humpty back together. All the positive fundamentals we all know still exist - Kry & Grz need to approach the process with a handful of humility and that is what has been taking place. GT was a throwaway pawn and the MOA may be another renegotiation pawn, but VZ and particularly Chavez needs both Kry & Grz politically and economically. What manana brings? who knows, but GT's exit is positive. Resigning this abruptly for personal reasons is BS - this guy f'up big time and was shown the door. The permit is around the corner!