If Joaqu\u00edn Leal, and later on Alex Saab, were in charge \u2014at the initial request of Vice President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez\u2014 of devising and activating in 2019 a network to trade Venezuelan raw materials to bypass the U.S. sanctions on the Caracas regime, it was only a matter of time before they had to face the challenge of going around the turnstile that Washington installed with its punitive measures for Venezuelans to access one of the most scarce imported goods, the U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They began to outline the formula that they found for their plans after a request for clarification in an email sent on July 16, 2019, barely a month after the first \u201chumanitarian\u201d operation of Leal\u2019s Mexican network with Venezuela \u2014an alleged barter of two million barrels of oil for tanker trucks and white corn<\/a>. \u201cWhat would be the specific object of Paquete Alcance<\/em>? I am asking because the object defined in the incorporation papers is extremely diverse and confusing, as it combines food with technology,\u201d reads the communication, which is part of the leak of thousands of documents that the newspaper EL PA\u00cdS of Madrid and Armando.info<\/strong> obtained and reviewed together to produce this series of articles entitled \u201cMexican Bypass against Sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The email with the question was sent by Venezuelan lawyer Roxana Daneska Mundarain L\u00f3pez. The lawyer was already someone Leal trusted in Caracas and had represented him in Venezuela in the operations of Libre Abordo<\/a>, the Mexican company that first acted as a pivot for the scheme with tentacles in 30 countries to avoid U.S. financial and commercial sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roxana Mundarain was also in charge of registering in Venezuela, in September 2019, the company she was asking about in her July 2019 email , \u201cPaquete Alcance\u201d (literally, Reach Package)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n