Andrés Izarra writes: No one knows who the beneficiaries of the Productive Participation Contracts signed under the Anti-Blockade Law and now legalized are. No one knows which areas were handed over, at what prices, or under what conditions.
The law legalizes what was done in secret and establishes secrecy as the norm for what is to come. With this, the remaining Maduro supporters are guaranteed their share of the spoils. Just like under Gómez, those beneficiaries will now turn around and resell those rights to transnational corporations. ... – Excerpted from "What We Lost: An Assessment of Venezuela's 2026 Oil Reform," Jan. 30, 2026, via Fred Fuentes at https://www.facebook.com/federico.fuentes.370/posts/pfbid0c2oNyg8N5NJ5i8nnRXxzxL6QeZZ6QaqvULg31Z62Szfsw71Zg723PSYLaYBRLvYal -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40482): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40482 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117605985/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
