Oil smuggling brings environmental disaster to Venezuela’s economic ruin
We recently brought you a report from Caracas on the collapse of the economy and the health care system and the lawlessness run rampant there.
Tonight, again in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on crisis Reporting, special correspondent Nadja Drost and videographer Bruno Federico report from western Venezuela on Lake Maracaibo. It is the hub of Venezuela’s oil industry, the country’s lifeblood, which is now a trade in serious trouble.
NADJA DROST: The drop in oil prices has not just devastated the Venezuelan economy. It’s causing an environmental crisis as well. An oil spill that happened in May still covers the shoreline of Lake Maracaibo.
JOSE GREGORIO GARCIA, Fisherman (through translator): Lately, we have been seeing a lot of oil spills. It wasn’t like this before.
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