“The largest share of commercial creditors likely consists of international bondholders, including specialist distressed-debt investors, sometimes called vulture funds.
Among the creditors is a group of companies awarded compensation through international arbitration after assets were expropriated by Caracas. U.S. courts have upheld multi-billion-dollar awards to ConocoPhillips and Crystallex among others, turning those claims into debt obligations and allowing creditors to pursue Venezuelan assets to make themselves whole.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/venezuelas-billions-distressed-debt-who-is-line-collect-2026-01-04/
This morning, I went for a thirty minute walk with my son. We talked the entire time. Not just filling space, but real conversation. At four years old, this came faster than I expected. It's wonderful. And melancholic.
"For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast." —Anna Quindlen
“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life.” —Confucius