Alejandro Betancourt won. Get over it.

This site has, without a doubt, the largest collection of research about Alejandro Betancourt's criminal activities. What started in 2011, 2012 has arguably been one of the best documented cases of rampant corruption ever published in any language. Actionable intelligence has been obtained, curated, catalogued and published to paint an unmistakable picture that reveals the kind of graft that bankrupt nations. Authorities in relevant jurisdictions have received the information. The U.S. used to be about the only country on earth ready to investigate transnational crime related to PDVSA. But Donald Trump won for the second time, and we can easily see why Betancourt has been picked as his Venezuela man. There's no one better suited, not even Alex Saab or Francisco D'Agostino. We can imagine the kind of conversations someone like Jared Kushner could have with Betancourt. We told the kind of arrangements cooked between Mauricio Claver Carone and Betancourt, once referred to by Rudy Giuliani as a "matter of national security" (for the U.S.A. that is). Betancourt won. Everywhere. It's about time people that don't know his story, and much less have an idea how such specimens thrive in Caracas and Washington, get over it. Donald Trump rules. That's all the explanation that is needed.

Post Datum: our former editor got in touch to add that, as per date of publication, Betancourt is still associated with an entity sanctioned by U.S. Treasury, meaning Trump's choice of Venezuela oil tsar is a man his own government has under sanctions. Secondly, Betancourt was chosen not through an open, public, competitive and transparent bidding process. So Betancourian! The thug cannot bring anything other than corruption to the table, and that is precisely why he was chosen: he doesn't have Chevron's, Repsol's, Conoco's track record or capacity, he is not needed as a special intermediary or to establish communication backchannels with chavista thugs (his former partner and Trump's golfing buddy Harry Sargeant did that). What Trump did was to habilitate Betancourt for what he is best equipped: corruption. Intelligence sources commenting on Betancourt's new lease of life despite existing criminal cases told us Betancourt and Trump / Kushner is a marriage made in heaven. The perfect proxy to distribute new and ill acquired wealth well away from current or future authorities' reach. Betancourt has swum with the best of them, from Epstein to Claude Dauphin to Nikolay Patrushev's right hand man. Trump couldn't have picked a better partner. The world is just not equipped to deal with the kind of criminality Bill Barr, Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche have been protecting.