Episode 3 — What Strategic Planning Looks Like on Day Zero: Inside Venezuela, Right Now

Venezuela is not a future opportunity. It is a present one.

PdVSA is signing contracts with American companies every single day. Chevron, ExxonMobil, and Baker Hughes are already on the ground. The FBI has opened a physical office in Caracas. The diplomatic infrastructure is not forming — it has formed.

And yet most U.S. companies are still watching from the sidelines, waiting for certainty that will never arrive on their terms.

In Episode 3, Alex Miranda and Ignacio sit down with Jose Bracho — a Venezuelan-born, U.S.-educated business professional and advisor who is physically on the ground in Venezuela right now. Jose brings over 25 years of financial and business management experience across both markets, deep relationships across business, legal, and diplomatic circles, and a rare, real-time view into the contracts, conversations, and company movements forming today.

This episode delivers what the first two set up: a practical, step-by-step framework for what engaging Venezuela actually looks like — from someone who is there.

The companies that win won't be the ones with the most capital. They'll be the ones with the right relationships, the right local intelligence, and the discipline to move before the window closes.