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Oil-tainted Lake A Symptom, And Symbol, Of Venezuela's Collapse
A putrid smell hangs over the black-stained shores of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, where an oil slick is emblematic of the steep decline in the country's once-enviable petroleum industry. Here, much like elsewhere in what was once Latin America's …