@built_on_hope That hasn't stopped companies really anywhere historically? Investors want projects to funnel money into because they are running out of profitable investments. If there's a bunch of new oil rigs that they can pay to build, that creates new profits and provides more opportunity for capital to circulate.

@built_on_hope Venezuela has some of the biggest reserves of raw resources in the world, including oil, silver, and others. Those resources would be a huge boon to multinational corporations, though to be fair some of them can really only be processed by China.