You're right CJR, as always. I did like this part,

Hecla Vice President Mike Baker told analysts his La Camorra crew intends to ride out the latest wave of turbulence in Venezuela as they have done for the past nine years, and simply continue to mine and generate cash flow for the Idaho-based Hecla.

I hope (and, let's face it, we're all betting!!!) that we get to this point where we're making a nice profit and the company rides out the 'latest wave of turbulence in Venezuela'. In this case he's referring to 40 workers picketing the mine protesting the firing of a few (both the firing and the picketing approved by the VZ authorities, by the way). That'll make the shorts happy as this roller coaster of a stock continues long after the permit.

CJR, I really must think about learning how shorting works. LOL