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20.05.26 - 17:42
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A 220% Bond Rally Snaps as Venezuela Euphoria Gets Reality Check (Bloomberg)
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To the investors who had snapped up Venezuela's defaulted bonds at beaten-down prices, it was the moment they were waiting for: Acting President Delcy Rodriguez's government announced that it was moving quickly to kick off negotiations aimed at restructuring its $170 billion pile of debt....
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20.05.26 - 16:01
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Can Venezuela Rebuild Investor Trust With a Debt Overhaul? (Bloomberg)
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Venezuela is seeking to kick off one of the biggest debt restructurings in modern financial history, as the government attempts to revive the economy after years of turmoil. If successful, the renegotiation of the terms of $170 billion of bonds, loans and other claims that are in default could reopen the country's access to international markets and fresh investment....
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20.05.26 - 12:30
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′Spooks hotel′: inside the five-star nerve centre of the US takeover of Venezuela (The Guardian)
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Diplomats, businessmen and US marines mingle at the JW Marriott hotel in Caracas as deals are done and the country's resources divvied upOver breakfast in one of the swankiest hotels in Caracas, you can hear them mulling Venezuela's past, present and future in sporadically hushed tones. As diners tuck in to plates of fried eggs, black beans and arepas, snatched fragments of conversation speak of election roadmaps, political fragmentation and oil-fuelled economic growth.But the murmured discussions are not being conducted in Caribbean Spanish by Venezuelan officials pondering their country's direction after the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. The accents are North American and belong to the US officials, diplomats and spies now calling many of the shots here after Donald Trump's controversial military intervention on 3 January. Neighbouring tables are occupied by huddles of musclebound US marines, tattoos covering their bulging calves, baseball caps covering their heads, and walkie-talkies stra...
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17.05.26 - 11:12
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′Feels like an illusion′: inside post-Maduro Venezuela′s bewildering new era (The Guardian)
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Four months after Trump's surprise raid, a political thaw has descended – but mingled with hope is trepidation for what comes nextWhen Ángel Linares heard a strange buzz followed by an explosion, his first thought was that neighbours were setting off fireworks to celebrate the new year.Then his windows shattered, the building's walls shook and its facade was ripped off, sending him flying on to the ground of an apartment suddenly reduced to rubble. His 85-year-old mother, Jesucita, feared Venezuela's northern coast had been devastated by an earthquake, like the one she remembers from 1967. Continue reading......
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