Given the statement "The process has stalled in the office of Environment Minister Yubiri Ortega, who is opposed to foreign companies extracting the country's natural resources" consider the following.

If she really believed that, a smart thing to do would be to let the companies, KRY, GRZ etc build their mines and then let Venezuela expropriate ala the way they did with the oil companies.  Now that would be showing Hugo she knew how to do things.