Venezuela and Cuba set up a mining joint venture company that will function within the ALBA trade and integration agreement, according to a decree published Wednesday by Venezuela’s Gaceta Oficial.

Venezuela and Cuba aside, ALBA includes Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, St. Vincent and Grenadines, Antigua & Barbuda, and Dominica.

Let's assume, for the time being that this cast of bankrupt, incompetent miscreants were going to actually try to build a large scale mine like Las Cristinas. Who would pay for building the mine?