Francisco Javier González Álvarez

The Joker Broker: Doing Business with the World’s Foremost Vendor of Nonexistent Oil

Francisco Javier González Álvarez’s life is shrouded in secrecy, but we know this: He was born December 3, 1949, in La Laguna, in the Canary Islands, off of Spain. The next 45 years are a bit of a blank—nothing to indicate he would become the world’s...