Some bonds fall as much as 18 cents after announcement Government says it will keep paying debt during talks One day after President Nicolas Maduro left traders puzzled by pledging to both refinance and restructure Venezuela’s foreign bonds, his chief debt negotiator only added to the confusion. Tareck El Aissami, the country’s vice president, chose yet another term as he spoke Friday — “renegotiate” — to describe the government’s plans while simultaneously saying bond payments would continue to be made. A renegotiation generally connotes a hard-line restructuring that sticks creditors with steep losses, but the pledge to keep making payments implies a less-confrontational approach. El Aissami went on to invite investors to meet him in Caracas for talks Nov. 13, an encounter that almost certainly won’t happen because of U.S. sanctions against the government and against El Aissami in particular (the Treasury Department has labeled him a drug kingpin). […]