Standard & Poor’s has become the first rating agency to say that Venezuela is officially in default following Caracas’s failure to make two interest payments.

在委内瑞拉政府未能支付两笔债务的利息后，标准普尔(Standard & Poor's)成为首家宣布委内瑞拉正式违约的评级机构。

S&P said on Tuesday that Venezuela had failed to make $200 million in coupon payments for global bonds due in 2019 and 2024 within the 30-calendar-day grace period.

标普周二表示，委内瑞拉未能在30个日历日的宽限期内偿还2019年和2024年到期的全球债券的2亿美元票息。

As a result, the rating agency said it had downgraded the issue ratings on those bonds to D from CC and cut the country’s long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating to selective default, or SD, from CC.

标普表示，它已因此把这些债券的发行评级从CC级下调至D级，并将委内瑞拉的长期外币主权信用评级从CC级下调至SD级(即Selective Default，选择性违约)。

“Our CreditWatch negative reflects our opinion that there is a one-in-two chance that Venezuela could default again within the next three months,” S&P said.

“我们的负面观察决定反映出，我们认为委内瑞拉在未来3个月内有一半的可能性再次违约，”标普说。

Venezuela’s Socialist government is under pressure after investors left a Caracas meeting on Monday none the wiser about how the country plans to avoid a looming $60bn bond default and Europe imposed sanctions on the country for human rights abuses.

委内瑞拉统一社会主义党政府现在承受着很大压力。周一，投资者从该国首都加拉加斯的一次会议上离开时，仍不清楚该国打算如何避免一场即将到来的600亿美元债券违约，此外欧洲还以该国践踏人权为由对该国实施了制裁。