You pay for what you paint!

Sir Benedict Mander in “Venezuela’s state oil company gears up for a $2bn bond issue” May 8, quotes experts with “expected to be a two year zero-coupon bond yielding about 16 per cent” and that it “will not affect the yields on existing PDVSA or sovereign debt – one of the best performers in emerging markets this year”. It is hard to understand how they would get away with that.

That said PDVSA with all the richness that it controls, if it was well run, should have to pay only some basis points more than the risk free rate and so, in order for your readers to understand better what is going on, perhaps you should have translated what was painted on the PDVSA oil tanks in the photo. It says "Fatherland Socialism or Death"… hence 16 percent.

The Global Coalition of Oil-Cursed Citizens