Causes This stranded Venezuelan oil tanker is a potential disaster. Here's what we know After the U.S. tightened sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company, more than a million barrels of crude oil were abandoned offshore.
Causes www.nytimes.com Javier Corrales: What the oil spill in Venezuela tells us about its politics The largest oil reserves and one of the world’s most incompetent governments have brought authoritarianism, economic collapse and environmental disaster to the country.