Venezuela is making 'surreal, suicidal' debt payments (BUT DEFAULT LOOMS!)

``Venezuela just made a full payment on a $1.5 billion bond, but the country is hardly out of the debt woods yet. Experts say the country, plagued by hyperinflation and a shortage of basic goods, will almost definitely default -- the question is how, and when.... Diego Ferro, co-chief investment officer at Greylock Capital, said Thursday during a panel discussion on Venezuelan debt... "my sense is that they really run out of everything at the beginning of next year."''