chev finding out companies need a profit to buy equipment, and pay workers. Elegal miners pay no taxes pollute the environment, live in public housing, get free electicity, free food and really do not add anything to the venezeula economy.
Mining cmpanies would have provided wages, social benefits, and pay taxes.
what government can afford to run every business, every store, every mine successfully. For one they do not have the capital to finance every company in every sector.
After screwing China rail (KRY venture) i would imagine China will be doing most of there shopping in Canada.
They screwed the Russians mining projects, nuclear plant constructionis history
the list goes on.
Who will buy friut and farm produce, canadians who have been screwed out of investments, i hardly doubt it.