CARACAS, Wednesday July 01, 2009 | Update
Economy
State-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (Pdvsa) announced on Wednesday that the USD 3 billion bond issue dubbed "Petrobono 2011" will be registered in international markets, a move expected by investors willing to buy the instrument.
"Consequently, the oil company will give notice to the financial entities asking the required information for the respective registry in Euroclear and/or Clearstream," said the Venezuela oil-run company in an addendum to the notification issued last week to announce the operation, Reuters reported.
10:07 AM. DIPLOMACY. Admired by the Colombian guerrilla after his coup attempt in 1992, the then lieutenant colonel Hugo Chávez Frías received financial support by the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) for his projects after his capture that year. This mostly explains the relationship and "debt" between the parties, as revealed by a paper of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) of the United Kingdom.