Jets, Horses and Bribes: How a Venezuelan Official Became a Billionaire as His Country Crumbled Alejandro Andrade, a former treasurer in Venezuela’s Socialist government, will be sentenced next week after pleading guilty to receiving more than $1 billion in bribes. Share: Facebook Twitter Google+ Stumble Digg Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook Related Posts:In a Mexico ‘Tired of Violence,’ Zapatista Rebels Venture Into PoliticsChechnya Pushes Divorced Couples to Reunite ‘for the Children’Funeral for Teenager Killed by Philippine Police Galvanizes Duterte CriticsAs ‘Death to America’ Chants Lose Power, Iran Retools Propaganda With Rap VideosMan With 4-Foot Sword Shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ Outside Buckingham Palace, Police SayMorocco’s Stability Is Roiled by Monthslong Protests Over Fishmonger’s Death