ARTE ReportageVenezuela: A Dying Lake

27/01/2023

Since 2002, with the nationalisation of the oil industry by the Chavez government – a figureheadof Latin American socialism - Venezuela has experienced an unprecedented economic downturn, aggravated in 2006 by US sanctions. The crisis has forced people like Anibal to turn to other activities to survive, in his case fishing on the heavily polluted Lake Maracaibo.

Director

  • Frédéric Elhorga, Jorge Benezra, Sébastien Eppinger

Author

  • Frédéric Elhorga

Country

  • France

Year

  • 2023

Duration

25 min

Available

From 21/02/2023 to 08/01/2026

Genre

Documentaries and Reportage