Fishermen covered in oil get their boat ready for fishing on Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo, a view of the state-owned La Salina crude oil shipping terminal in the distance. Nobody lives as closely with the environmental fallout of Venezuela’s collapsing oil industry as the fishermen who scratch out an existence on these blackened, sticky shores. Environmentalists say the lake, which is actually a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea, was first sacrificed in the name of progress in the 1930s, when a canal was excavated so bigger oil tankers could reach its ports