The Listin Diario reports that the government is receiving pressures from banks and broker firms to increase the sovereign bond issue to US$600 million. This would add US$100 million to pay off the debt the government maintains with the power generators. The government has said the sovereign bond money would only go to build what it has called reproductive works. Listin Diario cites an unnamed government source saying the lobbying to force adding the US$100 million as a pre-condition for brokers to issue the bonds is “vulgar blackmail”.
