Add the title of "loan shark to Dictatorships" to Goldman Sachs many varied roles around the world. As Venezuela teeters on the brink of tearings its utopian social fabric apart (by which we mean paying its soldiers while impoverishing its people to in order to maintain 'peace') crushed by plunging oil revenues, everyone's favorite American bank 'generously' offered to buy (from Venezuela) $4bn worth of oil debt owed by the Dominican Republic for 41% of its value, according to El Nuevo Herald. Doing god's work indeed. "This is a tremendous bargain for Goldman," said one source, as Venezuela is "liquidating the few assets they have, trying to find the cash flow, cash, they do not have."

Venezuelan bonds continues to crash

As El Nuevo Herald reports,

Cornered by liquidity problems, the regime of Nicholas Maduro sold to US investment bank Goldman Sachs obligations for more than $4,000 million Dominican Republic owed to Venezuela for oil supplied through Petrocaribe, receiving only 41 percent the total value of debt,

1 December 2014, by Tyler Durden (Zero Hedge)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-02/how-goldman-sachs-became-broke-venezuelas-loan-shark