Guayana had large iron deposits as Cerro Bolivar and San Isidro. The infrastructure for exploiting them was laid  as well as the complementary huge steelworks  . Communications had been a priority and Venezuela was endowed with a network of roads and bridges that covered the territory where over 90\% of the population lived. Half or more of these were improved surface, and all they lacked was the asphalt paving. This system linked with the many blacktops that the oil companies had built in eastern and western Venezuela. These had been traced for exploration and exploitation, but they also served for the use of the general population and were now linked to the national highway system.
Guayana had large iron deposits as Cerro Bolivar and San Isidro. The infrastructure for exploiting them was laid by US Steel as well as the complementary huge steelworks by Innocenti . Communications had been a priority and Venezuela was endowed with a network of roads and bridges that covered the territory where over 90\% of the population lived. Half or more of these were improved surface, and all they lacked was the asphalt paving. This system linked with the many blacktops that the oil companies had built in eastern and western Venezuela. These had been traced for exploration and exploitation, but they also served for the use of the general population and were now linked to the national highway system.
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by US Steel
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by Innocenti