Venezuela’s opposition-controlled National Assembly expects to vote on making a $71 million bond interest payment when it meets next week, a lawmaker and a member of state-run oil company PDVSA’s ad-hoc board of directors said. Payment would protect U.S. refiner Citgo, PDVSA’s crown jewel overseas asset, from potential seizure by creditors. But it was not immediately clear how the opposition-aligned ad-hoc board, which does not control PDVSA’s day-to-day operations, would make the payment or what funds it would use. Alejandro Grisanti, an economist appointed to the ad-hoc PDVSA board by the National Assembly last week, said the board was “sparing no effort” to make the payment on PDVSA’s 2020 bond, which is backed by half the […]