"The Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, said in January that the vast site would be operated by the joint venture VenRus comprising Rusoro and State."
"Canadian Crystallex is currently an operating contract for Las Cristinas, but was unable to obtain an environmental permit for the project." ...after developing the mine for over ten years at a cost of millions upon millions of dollars...

Hey Hugo...how y'all gonna splain that in international arbitration court...specially since yous dealin' wif two Canadian companies? Huh Sukka?