goesin who are start—ups, this is so scary.specially, and those in business, you have heard a loss of business leaders come out and talk about this, they have had to make contingency plans anyway or they are ploughing ahead hoping that what they work on and are building will come out regardless of what happens in the macro climate. will come out regardless of what happens in the macro climatem will come out regardless of what happens in the macro climate. it is interesting times. the financial times, the other issue affecting business worldwide, this is the trade tariffs that are ongoing between the us and china. this financial times article talks about the pressure on both sides to see progress within this 90 day period that they called last month between donald trump and xijinping. are you hopeful we will see progress? what are your thoughts about how this is going? i think there has been enough expectations set on this series of meetings this week that you will see some progress. you will see state m e nts some progress. you

go under hiding, in exile, or in jail, and certainly at maduro heals very comfortable that it is goesincomfortable that it is goes in the direction of the opposition, that one of those two, if not other options, might be part of his fate. right now it appears that the status quo is relatively maintained. we still have the economic crisis, but we still have the leadership there. what could be the leadership there. what could be the tipping point? what is a trigger to change things? well, i think for now the military is certainly the key to either the status quo or transition. where the military leadership or the military institution sits, i think, is probably what we are going to expect in venezuela going forward. now, sort of conventional wisdom or history tells us that the longer this goes on, the more this favours maduro. however, we are starting to see, you know, increased economic pressures . see, you know, increased economic pressures. certainly the back of london yesterday denying maduro's request of $1.2 billion in gold reserves. and the united states has put the threat of oil sa