Building the worlds' largest gold mining company doesn't leave room for pettiness...

EZ

... neither does running a country. But it would seem, possibly, that the ability of Hugo Chavez to fast-track one of the world's largest goldmines, thereby creating many jobs and revenues for his country and greatly improving an impoverished area of Venezuela, has been tempered by Crystallex's close association with Tejera Paris.

Pettiness exists. Perhaps a valid argument exists that Chavez cannot afford such a trait... Peter Munk on the other hand can indeed afford it.