Thanks to Cuban and Iranian specialists, he said, “we now have a complete map of the location of all of our reserves, from gold to uranium.”

Sanz said that Venezuela is open to investments of private capital in the sector, but with the government as majority shareholder, as is the case with the Russian company Rusoro which is currently working in the country.

Maybe they can attract some of that high powered Cuban and Iranian investment capital and technical know-how to develop their mines with "not-for-profit minority partnerships" for the good of the Venezuelan "Socialist Revolution". Of course this would also require profitable bribes to the leaders of the Venezuelan "Socialist Revolution" and mandate that investment capital was not raised by way of capitalist stock offerings of publically traded companies. Sounds like an extraordinary "outside the box" plan to catapult Venezuela out of poverty and into the next millenium.