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Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela. Its residents face soaring inflation, widespread poverty and shortages. Under Hugo Chavez, Venezuela based its economy on oil exports. But the fall in oil prices led to a crippling economic crisis. Most people can no longer afford to buy food and the fishermen of Lake Maracaibo resort to smuggling to sell their meagre catch in neighbouring Colombia. Our reporters Matthieu Delmas and Chris Huby went to meet Maracaibo’s struggling residents.
Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves in the world. But over the past three years, the country has suffered the worst economic crisis in South American history. After 19 years of rule by first Hugo Chavez and then his successor, Nicolas Maduro, the country is on its knees.
Chavez financed his generous social programmes thanks to the windfall from millions of petrodollars. With oil prices constantly rising, the economic cycle remained positive until his death in 2013.
Economy in freefall
The passing of the left-wing leader, followed by the slump in oil prices, marked the end of the Chavez-led economic boom. Today, importers can no longer afford to pay for their orders in dollars, imported food has become an unaffordable luxury, while the IMF forecasts an inflation rate of 13,800% for this year. Only petrol remains affordable. For the price of a pack of flour, drivers can fill up their tank nearly 15,000 times.
Today, Venezuela is on the brink of economic collapse. Only a few upscale residential towers, with barbed wire over the walls, hint at its past glory. Faced with runaway inflation, shortages, hunger and insecurity, two million Venezuelans have already left the country, hoping to build a better future elsewhere.
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General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has same design as Genoa Bridge
General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has same design as Genoa Bridge
General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela was also designed by Riccardo Morandi
Design and construction
Made of reinforced and prestressed concrete, the cable-stayed bridge spans 8,678 metres (5.392 mi) from shore to shore. The five main spans are each 235 metres (771 ft) long.[3] They are supported from 92-metre (302 ft) tall towers, and provide 46 metres (151 ft) of clearance to the water below.[4] The bridge carries only vehicles.
The competition to design the bridge started in 1957 and was won by Riccardo Morandi, an Italian civil engineer. Morandi's was the only concrete design out of twelve entries, and was expected to be less expensive to maintain, as well as providing valuable experience of prestressed concrete technology for Venezuela.[4] Construction was carried out by several companies, including Grün & Bilfinger, Julius Berger, Bauboag AG, Philipp Holzmann AG, Precomprimido C.A., Wayss & Freytag and K Ingeniería.
According to eminent bridge engineer Michel Virlogeux:[3]
General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge
Arabic: عام جسر رافائيل أوردانيتا على بحيرة ماراكايبو في فنزويلا له نفس تصميم جسر جينوا
Bulgarian: Генерал Мост Рафаел Урданета на езерото Маракайбо във Венецуела има същия дизайн като моста Генуа
Czech: Generál Rafael Urdaneta most u jezera Maracaibo ve Venezuele má stejný design jako Janovský most
Danish: General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge på Lake Maracaibo i Venezuela har samme design som Genova Bridge
German: General Rafael Urdaneta Brücke am Maracaibo-See in Venezuela hat das gleiche Design wie Genua Bridge
Greek: Η Γέφυρα Ραφαήλ Ουραντάτα στη λίμνη Maracaibo στη Βενεζουέλα έχει το ίδιο σχέδιο με τη γέφυρα της Γένοβας
English: General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge on Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has same design as Genoa Bridge
Spanish: El puente general Rafael Urdaneta en el lago Maracaibo en Venezuela tiene el mismo diseño que el puente de Génova
Persian: پل ژنرال رافائل اوردانتا در دریاچه ماراکایبو در ونزوئلا دارای طراحی مشابه پل جنیو است
Finnish: General Rafael Urdaneta -järven rannalla Maracaibossa Venezuelassa on sama muoto kuin Genovan silta
French: Le pont général Rafael Urdaneta sur le lac Maracaibo au Venezuela a la même conception que le pont de Gênes
Hindi: वेनेज़ुएला में माराकाइबो झील पर जनरल राफेल उरनेनेता ब्रिज जेनोवा ब्रिज के समान डिजाइन है
Croatian: Generalni most Rafaela Urdaneta na jezeru Maracaibo u Venezueli ima isti dizajn kao most Genova
Hungarian: Rafael Urdaneta híd a Maracaibo-tónál Venezuelában ugyanolyan tervekkel rendelkezik, mint a Genova-híd
Indonesian: Jembatan Jenderal Rafael Urdaneta di Danau Maracaibo di Venezuela memiliki desain yang sama dengan Jembatan Genoa
Italian: Il generale Rafael Urdaneta Bridge sul lago di Maracaibo in Venezuela ha lo stesso design del ponte di Genova
Hebrew: גנרל רפאל Urdaneta גשר על אגם Maracaibo בוונצואלה יש עיצוב זהה גשר גנואה
Japanese: ベネズエラのマラカイボ湖のラファエル・ウルダネタ橋はジェノア橋と同じデザイン
Korean: 베네수엘라의 마라 카이 보 호수 (Lake Maracaibo)에있는 라파엘 우르다 네타 다리 (Rafael Urdaneta Bridge)는 제노아 다리
Dutch: Algemene Rafael Urdaneta Brug over het meer van Maracaibo in Venezuela heeft hetzelfde ontwerp als de brug van Genua
Norwegian: General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge på Lake Maracaibo i Venezuela har samme design som Genoa Bridge
Polish: Generał Rafael Urdaneta Most na jeziorze Maracaibo w Wenezueli ma ten sam wzór co Most Genui
Portuguese: General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge no Lago Maracaibo na Venezuela tem o mesmo design da Ponte de Gênova
Romanian: Podul general Rafael Urdaneta de pe Lacul Maracaibo din Venezuela are același design ca Podul Genova
Russian: Мост генерала Рафаэля Урданета на озере Маракайбо в Венесуэле имеет такой же дизайн, как Генуэзский мост
Swedish: General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge på Lake Maracaibo i Venezuela har samma design som Genoa Bridge
Chinese: 委内瑞拉马拉开波湖上的Rafael Urdaneta桥将军设计与热那亚桥相同
Chinese (Simplified): 委内瑞拉马拉开波湖上的Rafael Urdaneta桥将军设计与热那亚桥相同
Chinese (Traditional): 委內瑞拉馬拉開波湖上的Rafael Urdaneta橋將軍設計與熱那亞橋相同
General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge view from the lake to Cabimas side.jpg
Coordinates 10°34′27.38″N 71°34′33.73″WCoordinates: 10°34′27.38″N 71°34′33.73″W
Carries vehicles
Crosses Lake Maracaibo
Locale Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela[1]
Characteristics
Design Cable-stayed bridge[1]
Material reinforced concrete[1]
Total length 8.7 kilometres (5.4 mi)[1]
Height 86.6 metres (284 ft)[1]
Longest span 235 metres (771 ft) x 5
No. of spans 135
History
Designer Riccardo Morandi
Construction start 1958[1]
Construction end 1962[1]
Construction cost Bs. 350 million[2]
The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge is located at the outlet of Lake Maracaibo, in western Venezuela. The bridge connects Maracaibo with much of the rest of the country. It is named after General Rafael Urdaneta, a Venezuelan hero in the War of Independence.
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Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, is the unofficial lightning capital of the world. There, lightning strikes occur, on average, 300 days a year. When dangerous storms approach, most people flee. But 21-year-old Jonas Piontek does just the opposite. The German photographer stays put in the face of certain danger to capture amazing photographs of the electric storms.
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VENEZUELA: LAKE MARACAIBO: FISHERMEN PROTEST AGAINST RECENT OIL SPILL
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Several thousand fishermen, ecologists and politicians circled Lake Maracaibo - the heart of Venezuela's oil industry - on Thursday to protest a recent oil spill.
Local fishermen were left with nothing to catch after a Greek-registered ship leaked 25-thousand barrels of crude oil into the lake last February.
They now want compensation and have joined forces with environmentalists to demand steps which would prevent a similar incident in future.
Around 900 boats sailed on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo on Thursday to protest at the damage and financial chaos caused by a recent oil spill.
Thousands of fishermen had been joined in their protest by environmentalists and politicians.
The lake, which has been joined by canal to the Caribbean Gulf of Venezuela, is a principal route for the export abroad of Venezuelan oil.
An estimated one point five (m) million barrels of oil pass through it every day.
The Greek-registered Nissos Amorgos ran aground in the canal in February and spilled 25-thousand barrels of extra heavy crude.
The spill turned a seven-mile stretch of coastline into an ecological disaster zone.
Tens of thousands of fish and other sea life were killed or damaged in the spill, the worst in a decade.
The fishermen say the spill has prevented them from working for two months.
They are demanding 139 (m) million U-S dollars in compensation against the owners of the Nissos Amorgos.
The protesters also want action taken to prevent a repeat of the disaster.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
This use of the lake, speaking scientifically, constitutes ecological suicide, an environmental disaster of such proportions in a region where people live off the fish, where people need those fish in order to earn a living and support their families. But these days, after what has happened, the fish are not going to recover, not tomorrow. the day after tomorrow or by the end of the week. The fish are still getting sick and will go on dying, but with certain safety measures and with certain changes of attitude by governments, there should be an immediate call for a scientific inquiry into whether the fish that we eat in the near future are healthy or not.
SUPER CAPTION: Fernando Nunez Calderon, environmentalist
Environmentalists have recommended moving oil tankers from the lake altogether.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
They built a navigation canal which has salinated and adversely affected the waters of Lake Maracaibo. The only way out, the only final solution for the water of Maracaibo, its salination and deterioration, is for the deep water ports to relocate to the Gulf of Venezuela.
SUPER CAPTION: Antonio Casela, President of the Protection of Lake Maracaibo Commission
About 12-thousand barrels are still on the sea floor and are to be cleaned up in the next three to four months.
But their presence has raised doubts over the navigability of the canal.
Official records confirm the canal is sufficiently deep for oil tankers to use - but local sailors dispute this.
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During peak thunderstorm season, Lake Maracaibo has an average of 28 lightning strikes per minute hit its surface. But why?
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Maracaibo, the story of Venezuela's collapse
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Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela. Its residents face soaring inflation, widespread poverty and shortages. Under Hugo Chavez, Venezuela based its economy on oil exports. But the fall in oil prices led to a crippling economic crisis. Once responsible for the country’s wealth, oil has now become a curse for the people in the region.
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Scavenging for survival in Venezuela | Hotspots
Four million people have fled Venezuela. It has the world's largest proven oil reserves, but economic mismanagement and corruption have left many of its people scavenging in bins to survive.
Sky's Alex Crawford travelled to Maracaibo, Venezuela's second largest city. Along with her team, they discover the deprecation and desperation driving thousands of people out of the country and and across its border.
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The Maracaibo Lake - Catatumbo Tour Part 1
The phenomenon of the Catatumbo lightning found along the Maracaibo lake and the Ven/Col border has been in the Guinnes World Record's book since 2014 for the worlds most frequent lightning place racking up to a whooping 250 strikes per square kilometers in some places. The journey was an unbelievable experience and I'm looking forward to go back to shoot some more lightning there...
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Catatumbo Lightning - The Neverending Storm (A Short Film by Jonas Piontek)
The Catatumbo Lightning in Venezuela has captured me from the first moment I set foot in Ologa, the fishing village in the heart of Lake Maracaibo. What locals call the Relampago de Catatumbo is also known as the everlasting storm, raging on in up to 300 nights every year with intensities reaching multiple flashes every second at a time. Just 15 kilometers NW of the camp lies the one point on earth with the most lightning strikes, here up to 250/km2 are registered every year. The Catatumbo Lighting is not just a Guinness World Record holder but also has been immortalized in the flag of Zulia, where people proudly call it the Maracaibo Lighthouse after saving Maracaibo on multiple occasions from nighttime ambushes of foreign naval fleets. But Catatumbo is much more than just lightning, it's an overall crazy place filled with amazing people, incredible wildlife, beautiful flora and unbelievable light scenes on an almost daily base. All these things coming together have made me fall in love with this place and after visiting 3 times I feel a deep connection to the Maracaibo Lake - It has become my second home. A ferocious and unforgiving home but the best home I could possibly imagine. This film shows the highlights of those three trips, all in a very cinematic fashion. Some of the lightning videos are indeed the real time, but many others are slightly shortened in order to look the most impressive, but everything you see in here did actually happen and wasn't altered using any After Effects etc.
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Сatatumbo lightning - The most electric place on Earth
The most electric place on Earth.
At one lake in Venezuela, lightning flashes 28 times a minute
The Catatumbo Lightning (Spanish: Relámpago del Catatumbo) is an atmospheric phenomenon in Venezuela. It occurs only over the mouth of the Catatumbo River where it empties into Lake Maracaibo. The frequent, powerful flashes of lightning over this relatively small area are considered to be the world's largest single generator of tropospheric ozone.
It originates from a mass of storm clouds at a height of more than 5 km, and occurs during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour. It occurs over and around Lake Maracaibo, typically over the bog area formed where the Catatumbo River flows into the lake.
Contrary to myths, the type of thunderstorm, and attendant lightning, produced with the Catatumbo storms are no different from highly electrified thunderstorm complexes commonly seen in many parts of the world. In other words, Catatumbo lightning isn't a rare or different type of lightning, and the storms are not in a different class than ones observed elsewhere. The single remarkable feature of the Catatumbo storms is their formation in the same place and at the same time for (what many sources say is) nearly half of the nights throughout the year.
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Lawlessness & disorder in Maracaibo (Venezuela) - Sky News - 23rd March 2019
Forget 'law and order' but in Venezuela's second largest city of Maracaibo, the entire city descended in absolute chaos as desperate people looted on an apocalyptic scale and took everything from businesses large and small in the city. And I do mean EVERYTHING!
From every scrap of food in supermarkets to the complete gutting of hotels, all the furnishings, all the fixtures and then ripping into walls for the cables. Seeing is truly believing in this case.
And the desperate plight of people in the country goes on and is this is sign of things to come for the rest of the country?
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Maracaibo es una ciudad venezolana, capital del estado Zulia, ubicada en el noroeste del país. Es el centro económico más importante del occidente venezolano, debido a la industria petrolera que se desarrolla en las riberas del lago de Maracaibo, específicamente en su sector noroccidental. Históricamente conocida como La Primera Ciudad de Venezuela, por su pujanza y desarrollo económico; también por ser la primera ciudad del país en ser protagonista de utilizar varios tipos de servicios públicos como la luz eléctrica y por encontrarse ubicada geográficamente colindante con las orillas del lago de Maracaibo donde se dio origen al nombre de Venezuela.
Ologá y su Relámpago
A 10 minutos siguiendo la ruta del río se encuentra la comunidad de Ologá, destino final de la ruta que Ybirai Villalobos ofrece como turistóloga. Esta es una lengua de costa lacustre de no más de 40 casas. Delimitadas por el río y por el lago. La mayoría de sus visitantes llegan a ver un fenómeno único en el país: el Relámpago del Catatumbo. Este relampaguea entre 140 y 160 noches al año; destellos de hasta 280 veces por hora dan vida a esta maravilla de la naturaleza, resplandor que se ve cuando avanza la noche y que lo hace la primera fuente regeneradora de la capa de ozono de su tipo en el planeta.
La vida en el caserío trata de vivir en los últimos años del turismo, Euclides Villasmil, habitante de Ologá cuenta que han tenido que acondicionar sus viviendas, las escuelas en las noches, montar hamacas y ofrecer comida casera para la gente que viene con grandes cámaras fotográficas y se paran horas frente al cielo a esperar el relámpago. Además de eso quienes vienen, se acercan a compartir la experiencia de vivir como lo hacen los habitantes de este pueblo, con sus casas mitad en la costa, mitad en el agua, ver su capilla compuesta por tres paredes de latón, sobre las cuales el techo de palma y la cruz de caña se levantan. En ella veneran a san Benito, le cantan y le bailan en octubre y en diciembre. Los tambores se apilan a un lado de la estructura y allí esperan a que la fiesta llegue para sonar los cueros.
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Lago de Maracaibo: epicentro del relámpago del Catatumbo
La unión de las masas de aire cálido y frio genera el fenómeno meteorológico único que se ganó un récord Guiness por la frecuencia de al menos dos rayos por segundo en noches de tormenta
Petroleo destozando el lago Maracaibo en Venezuela
(11 Oct 2019) RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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(Location: Zulia State,Venezuela)
Nadie vive tan de cerca las consecuencias ambientales de la colapsada industria petrolera de Venezuela como los pescadores que luchan por su existencia en las costas ennegrecidas del Lago de Maracaibo.
Fuente de gran riqueza en el pasado, en la actualidad se ha convertido en un páramo contaminado, con crudo que rezuma de cientos de plataformas oxidadas y tuberías agrietadas que cruzan la bahía
Yanny Rodriguez , un pescador de la zona nos explica cual es la situación del derrame de petróleo en el lago:
Ahorita al petróleo le están echando un químico, que hace que se hunda, ese petróleo que se hunde se vuelve pelota y se viene hacia la orilla. Entonces eso se le mete a las redes. Y eso nos prohíben a nosotros pescar. Entiende? A veces el pescado sale con petróleo.
El petroleo mancha los botes de pesca, obstruye los motores fuera de borda y mancha las redes.
Al final de cada día de trabajo al sol, los pescadores se lavan el petróleo de las manos y los pies con gasolina cruda. Dicen que la dolorosa erupción en su piel es el precio de la supervivencia.
A lo largo de una costa contaminada llamada Punta Gorda , durante una tarde sofocante, la tripulación arrastra el bote con su captura de cangrejos.
A la cuenta de tres, los pescadores descalzos apoyan sus hombros en la parte trasera del bote y lo deslizan a la orilla sobre el petróleo derramado.
En parejas, llevan pesadas cajas a la balanza mientras los cangrejos tratan de escapar.
Los pescadores separan los cangrejos cubiertos de petroleo del grupo y los arrojan en cubos.
Sus esposas, sentadas a la sombra de una cabaña , luchan por limpiarlos usando cepillos de dientes y trapos empapados en aceite de cocina
20 kilos limpiamos, que traen los pescadores,los que están llenos de petróleo ellos las regalan nos las dan a nosotros ,la limpiamos para nosotros, ya limpios venderla también, para obtener algo de plata también nosotros, nos ayudamos con esto, nos dice Aleivis Parra, esposa de uno de los pescadores
Luego, los cangrejos son pesados y transportados en camiones a las plantas de procesamiento para su eventual envío a los consumidores en los Estados Unidos, la vecina Colombia y localmente en Venezuela.
Hoy, el lago es una escena apocalíptica que está empeorando a medida que la basura empapada en aceite y la madera flotante bordea su costa a favor del viento.
Se puede percibir claramente una brisa fétida que constantemente atraviesa las costas y las aldeas , producto de los derrames perpetuos de petróleo, exponiendo a las personas , que dependen del lago , según los expertos, a una dieta diaria de mariscos contaminados que derivan en una serie de posibles problemas de salud , unido esto a las difcultades para obtener alimento y trabajo.
Ricardo Nunes, Associated Press
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Maracaibo: the story of Venezuela's collapse
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Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela. Its residents face soaring inflation, widespread poverty and shortages. Under Hugo Chavez, Venezuela based its economy on oil exports. But the fall in oil prices led to a crippling economic crisis. More than 2 million Venezuelans have left their country, hoping to build a future elsewhere ... Those who remain are ready to do anything to survive. Even if it means breaking the law.
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