(SAYING) But Ochoa admits that continued oil revenues, even if insufficient to cover mounting government expenditures, will allow President Chavez to put off, any day of reckoning that may loom ahead.
VOA: standard.2010.08.06
What began with the eyebrow-raising departure of catcher Russell Martin for Pittsburgh continued with Eric Chavez' jump to the Arizona Diamondbacks, then the news that second-tier Yankee targets Jeff Keppinger and Nate Schierholtz had quickly signed elsewhere.
This fire-fighting approach continued even as Mr Chavez lingered on his Cuban sickbed, with Vice-President Nicolas Maduro implementing a 32% devaluation of the bolivar in February.