Armed assailants murdered the captain of an oil tanker after boarding his ship while it was anchored off the coast of eastern Venezuela, according to a local union leader and a report from Venezuelan port authority. Six armed individuals boarded the San Ramon tanker early Monday morning in Pozuelos Bay and shot the captain, Colombian national Jaime Herrera Orozco, a report from the Puerto La Cruz port authority seen by Reuters said. A coast guard sergeant guarding the ship was also injured, the report added. Crime has become a growing problem https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-oil-crime-insight/pirates-and-hold-ups-crime-strikes-venezuelas-oil-industry-idUSKBN0P51G020150625 for OPEC member Venezuela’s moribund oil industry during a six-year economic crisis, marked by hyperinflation and shortages of basic goods. So-called pirates frequently rob equipment from oil wells in Maracaibo Lake in western Venezuela. Jose Bodas, an oil workers union leader in Puerto La Cruz, said the tanker had been waiting to enter the […]