PBS NewsHour

How Venezuela’s economic ruin became environmental disaster

Clip: 07/26/2016 | 8m 1s

The economic disaster in Venezuela caused by tumbling petrol prices — oil production is the main industry — is also behind an environmental one. Lake Maracaibo, which sustains the Añu indigenous group, is being contaminated by oil spills and the leaky drilling infrastructure, all made worse by rampant gas smuggling. Special correspondent Nadja Drost and videographer Bruno Federico report.

Aired: 07/26/16

Rating: NR

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