U.S. defense contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc has joined a long line of creditors seeking to enforce a judgment against heavily indebted OPEC member Venezuela, court documents filed on Friday showed. Huntington Ingalls’ shipbuilding unit earlier this year received a $138 million judgment from a Mississippi court against Venezuela’s defense ministry over non-payment for repairs to two of the South American country’s warships which began decades ago. The repairs began before Washington-Caracas relations grew hostile, under late socialist President Hugo Chavez. Oil-rich Venezuela has suffered a six-year economic collapse under Nicolas Maduro, Chavez’ successor and mentee, and the government owes billions to creditors abroad. On Friday, Huntington Ingalls registered its Mississippi judgment in Delaware federal court and requested the case be assigned to a judge overseeing an effort by Canadian gold miner Crystallex to collect on debts owed by Venezuela by seizing a stake in the parent […]