With the proverbial walls closing in on Venezuela on account of the United States-driven political squeeze of the Maduro administration through the choking off of that country’s oil exports, reports continue to surface about the South American republic pressing so-called ‘dark ships’ into service to continue its oil exports.
With the high drama that attends the oil exports confrontation frequently drifting from the absurd to the sublime, the most recent reports of just a few days ago assert that tankers are employing false location techniques to secretly export millions of barrels of oil to Russia in order to secure foreign exchange earnings to keep the country’s economy afloat.
