Hugo resorts to frauding his own people(miners) by giving them worthless checks(3years late) 2days before the election with the Bk of VZ closed and demands/threatens them to vote for his stooges and then stiffs them 2 days after the election. If he had to do that I.E., NO Bolivars, how now with oil under $40USD/B, will he do anything outside the country(build refineries in allied countries, buy military equipment or buy any imported products)? My guess is VZ credit status in the world is the equivalent of 350 on the FICO scale( the lowest possible). Hugo/VZ cannot buy KRY or any other evil capitalist corp out of their MOC's, Concessions or Contracts unless these Co's are dumb enough to accept his RUBBER check. He certainly isn't going to dig into the $Billions he's squireled away. He pays the military to protect him, like most despots, but they will stop that when they aren't paid. Russia isn't in much better condition so they won't pony up much(just enough to get a foothold in Latin America to PO the US). China's economy has slowed to single digits and I doubt they'll lend much. The World Oil market is not going up any time soon and as such VZ is going to be in trouble $$$ wise for some time. VZ already is domestically troubled with shortages etc. Hugo's only avenue is to allow contracts and concessions to move forward as agreed or there will be a REAL Revolution with Fat Hugo dangling at the end of a rope. With that $$ shortage scenario in mind, I can't see any way KRY's MOC will be bought by VZ unless it's in conjunction with some other DEEP pocket miner. Hugo would not want an evil western major so that leaves the other Russian miner and some African large mining co's. Your thoughts?