Under the slogan “A paralysed company is a nationalised company,” workers from VENEPAL [paper factory] and INVEPAL [valve factory] occupied their respective workplaces in 2003 and demanded that the government expropriate them. Service companies linked to oil activities were also nationalised, moving their workers to the payroll of [state oil corporation] PDVSA and leaving the company in charge of all operations in the oil fields. For its part, the Marilyns Proje Yatirim, S.A. company created a company with the state mining company Minerven in 2018 for the exploitation of gold called Sociedad Anónima Minería Binacional Turquía – Venezuela, with 45 percent of the share capital.