Armando.info: This boyfriend received an alliance with PDVSA as a dowry

Jorge Alfredo Silva Cardona has had a lot to celebrate in 2024. In a single year he married a Miss Venezuela, announced the sweet expectation of his first child and also became a member of the state oil company PDVSA. Not bad for a former member of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) who still in 2013 worked as an administrative technician of the National Integrated System of Customs and Tax Administration (Seniat), the Venezuelan State entity that is in charge of collecting tariffs and taxes.

As owner of Deportivo Táchira, the most traditional and successful club in the Venezuelan professional soccer league, Silva made use of his prerogatives: in January, he asked for his girlfriend’s hand at the Pueblo Nuevo Sports Center in San Cristóbal, capital of the Táchira State. , bordering Colombia. His fiancée, Sthefany Gutiérrez, Miss Venezuela 2017 and second runner-up at Miss Universe 2018, responded affirmatively. There was no game that day. But the Avalanche South, as the team’s brave group is known, showed up at the stadium and put aside its football passions for a moment to display a gigantography from the stands that, next to the shield of the aurinegra team, displayed a question: “Do you Do you want to marry me?”

@youthartistsMiss Venezuela 2017, Sthefany Gutiérrez (@sthefanygutierrez1) will marry Jorge Silva, a Creole businessman and President of Deportivo Táchira 💍⚽️ Gutiérrez and Silva made their romance public in 2019. Four years later, they got engaged❤️ Through stories On her Instagram, she shared a video showing how they entered the playing field with her fiancé with their eyes closed. “Will you marry me?” was the phrase that was read from the stands held by the attending fans, while the businessman knelt down to offer her the ring😍 The response of the second finalist of Miss Universe 2018 was affirmative. “For a lifetime with you my 10 ❤️he wrote. Source: @venezolanisimotv

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After saying yes, the couple jumped off the court in July to Pampatar, on the northeastern island of Margarita, to celebrate their wedding. The party was entertained by the Colombian singer Silvestre Dangond.

And just two months later, in mid-September, she announced that she was expecting her first child.

But before, on May 15, PDVSA had announced the founding of the Petrolera Roraima mixed company, whose constitution was approved the previous month by the National Assembly, with a pro-government majority.

Although the announcement came with less fanfare than the events leading up to Silva’s change in marital status, it also didn’t seem to hide anything. Roraima was preparing to begin operations the same month in the Hugo Chávez Orinoco Oil Belt, an immense reservoir of extra-heavy crude oil in the east of the country, on oil fields that until 2007 were assigned to ConocoPhilips. Pdvsa also reported that the Venezuelan State was going to hold 51% of the shares. The remaining 49% would be under the control of the new company A&B Oil and Gas, a private company of which Jorge Alfredo Silva Cardona, the smiling boyfriend at the time,

“Jorge Silva decided to make a leap from the agro-industrial and sports sector to the area of ​​natural resources,” explained the state oil company’s bulletin, “he seeks to contribute to the growth of the country, betting on one of the most important industries in Venezuela, and seeking to attract national or foreign capital that wants to join this ambitious project.”

Indeed: just as Silva seemed not to worry about the shadow of the sanctions that, although mitigated or suspended, still loom over PDVSA, the latter did not seem to care that his new partner did not have any experience in oil activity.

Before becoming the owner of Deportivo Táchira, Silva gained fortune and the profile of a tycoon for his activity at the head of the JHS Business Group, a supplier and distributor at the service of the government. The holding company was born in 2013 and very soon, in 2015, it became the Venezuelan counterpart of the Brazilian giant JBS, the largest meat producer in the world, serving as a packer and supplier of refrigeration facilities. It was Diosdado Cabello, the considered number two of Chavismo, current Minister of the Interior and Justice, who in person was in charge of following up in Brazil on a contract for 2,000 million dollars signed between the Venezuelan State and JBS for the supply of meat, chicken and dairy products to the state-owned Agricultural Supply and Services Corporation (CASA),

But with Cabello, Silva’s relations with the high Chavista hierarchy were not exhausted. Nor its business possibilities.

By Marcos David Valverde. More details in Armando.info.