The international media think tanks and government agencies have discussed at length the near failure of Venezuela, once Latin America’s most stable and developed nation, and the emergence of this century’s second-worst humanitarian crisis. The country’s implosion can be blamed upon a variety of factors, the key being the socialist Maduro regime’s gross mismanagement of its economic engine, Venezuela’s oil industry. While the economic, political, and humanitarian fallout from what can only be described as the world’s worst peacetime economic crisis is widely recognized, the environmental consequences have long been ignored. The rapid and what appears to be the increasingly irreversible collapse of Venezuela’s leviathan oil industry as well as related infrastructure has caused a range of environmental incidents. It wasn’t until the U.S. Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago issued a statement concerning the environmental risks posed by the Venezuelan-flagged floating and storage offloading vessel Nabarima , that attention […]