Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro (center) speaks during an event to hand over ambulances for Miranda state government, next to Venezuela’s Vice President Tareck El Aissami (left) and Hector Rodriguez, governor of Miranda state, in Caracas on Thursday. He added that following Friday’s payment, he would seek a voluntary restructuring of the country’s remaining debt. Estimates of Venezuela’s total outstanding debt vary, with some analysts putting the figure between $100 billion and $150 billion. The development follows years of increasingly restricted financing options for Venezuela. In August, President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting U.S. institutions from trading new bonds that would serve to help finance Mr. Maduro’s government, a move aimed at punishing the regime for what the Trump administration called human-rights abuses and state-led corruption. The sanctions also could make a debt restructuring difficult or even impossible, according to some sovereign debt restructuring attorneys, because they restrict […]