In Venezuela, Anxiety About Ramping Up Oil Production in the Heavily Polluted Lake Maracaibo Region
2026-05-27
Experts and local activists, wary of past exploitation, are hoping it will be different this time—but aren’t confident it will be. By Avril Silva There is a joke Mónica Godoy Molero likes to make with her family: if you swim in Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo after an oil spill, you’ll sproutContinue Reading