Oil Smuggling Brings Environmental Disaster to Venezuela's Economic Ruin

The economic disaster in Venezuela caused by tumbling petroleum 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. Pulitzer Center grantees Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico report on this problem for the NewsHour.