Interesting.
If the Russians are going to operate the mines, production may actually go up.
But the people of Venezuela will see even less of the profit. And the environmental impact will also be much worse.
I just discovered that the link I provided may take you to a subscription page instead of the article..... It didn’t earlier.
Sorry.
And I can’t find another link that works, even going through my original source. Fortunately I posted the entire article, (other than the photo of Uncle Hugo that accompanied it).