The way HC is spending money he is going to need his Oil and Gold revenue to keep his spending habits in check.

It appears Vens primary bed partner are the Ruskie's with defense expenditures -

Furthermore, these are give-and-take businesses: new rifles, air defense units, submarines, missiles, ammunitions, helicopters, rifle factories, and many more are behind the amounts released, because details on some announcements of the Venezuelan spending agreed upon with Russian President Vladimir Putin's government are not disclosed: USD 174 billion in 2005, USD 4.95 billion the following year, and USD 13.9 billion in 2007. Only in Russian weapons purchasing agreements, the commitment totals USD 4 billion. And the Russians hope this amount will double in the short term.