Russ Dallen, Venezuela Bond Expert and Commentator, Dies at 58

Russell Dallen in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018. Photographer: Gabriel Aponte/Getty Images 
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Russell M. Dallen, Jr., a former head of Latin America at Oppenheimer who later went on to become a reference for niche Venezuela legal news around the nation’s complex debt issues, has died, family and friends told Bloomberg News.

A lawyer by training, Dallen, 58, was based in Caracas between 2000 and 2007 with Oppenheimer. While living in the country, he purchased the long-time English-language newspaper The Daily Journal and ran it for a brief period before selling and eventually keeping the archive under the banner of the Latin American Herald Tribune.