(EZ....I'm surprised you didn't think of this)

...they would have secretly arranged to record\video "negotiations", catching high level Venezuelan officials looking for payoffs to let the mine construction proceed....kinda like the DeLorean tapes or the tapes they got of the mayor of Washington DC a few years back.

KRY releases the tapes to 60 minutes. The miners see how they've been duped and kept in poverty by El Piggo. Bolivar State becomes the flash point for civil unrest, riots and anarchy in the context of global retaliation against dictators and tyrants (i.e. Egypt, etc.). Globovision splashes the news all over the country. The students pick up the fight and the riots move to Caracus. When the dust settles...Hugo is overthrown and replaced by a benevolent investment friendly regime. A bronze statue of Robert Fung (a la Simon Bolivar) is commissioned by the Venezuelan people and erected in the center of Sifontes. Fung hits the talk show circuit and gets a book deal.

KRY is given the green light on the original MOC and the permit is awarded. KRY stock price soars as gold blasts thru $2250\oz.

Venezuelan history is forever re-written.