The African Mining "news" makes perfect sense if you look at it from Hugo's perspective. He acts as Russian proxy using his "poor like us" socialist rhethoric to sign the resource agreements with other countries to allow Russia to develop\profit from them in the process. Russia supports him militarily in his quest to remain in power forever along with feeding him revenue streams from development of African in-ground resources. Makes sense from that perspective. Hugo has to understand the fact that they don't even have a can of 3-in-1 oil in any of their processing plants to keep things running smoothly. Can he be that stupid? Alright...you got me there.