Independent institutional analysis of Venezuela sovereign and PDVSA debt: litigation, sanctions, bonds, and creditor developments.
Oliver Blanco, named foreign minister by Delcy Rodriguez on Thursday, meets Marco Rubio at the State Department this morning in what Europa Press calls the first face-to-face contact between the two chief diplomats since relations were restored after the January operation.
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In June the desk filed on Aragua from outside a police line and never wrote the story it came for. It went back in the week the governor's earthquake explanation was three months old, the state ran on a load plan nobody can read by street, and a court in New York made the 2020 bonds whole.
Delcy Rodriguez named Oliver Blanco foreign minister and posted Felix Plasencia to the United Kingdom until Venezuela's gold is recovered, while promising elections without a date and ordering state assets valued for sale or return to former owners.
Delcy Rodriguez demanded on Wednesday that the Bank of England return Venezuela's gold, saying the excuses had to stop, and told the Foreign Ministry and the Procuraduria General to pursue its recovery, despite an August agreement on a joint approach with the 2015 Assembly.
Rodriguez retraced Machado's route through Aragua and Carabobo promising zero hunger by 2027 or 2028, while Machado met 33 opposition leaders towards a Gran Acuerdo Nacional, and the call for Supreme Tribunal candidates opened at the Museo Boliviano.