Vice President Delcy Rodríguez denounces terrorist attacks against the energy industry

Published at: 18/11/2024 01:33 PM

The Executive Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, on Monday denounced a series of terrorist attacks against the country's energy industry over the past week.

Speaking to the media, from the Miraflores Palace, Rodríguez pointed out that extremist factors “seek to derail our country from its good path”, as well as to attack national economic development and “deprive our population of essential services such as electricity, fuel, gas, in a truly macabre and perverse plan.”

He explained that the first attack occurred on Sunday, November 10, when a grenade was thrown at the North Pier of Zulia state, in an oil and gas production field, “which sought to prevent the Paraguaná refining complex from being supplied to the Paraguaná refining complex for fuel production.”

The senior official highlighted the security mechanisms installed, preventing terrorist attacks and destabilization actions, for which this device did not detonate and the diet of the crude oil and gas that go to the refinery in Paraguaná was not affected.

He pointed out that that same day in the afternoon, a fire broke out in a sector of the Petro Cedeño improvement plant, in the east of the country, with which “they intended to leave the country without diesel in the west, to leave the country without gasoline in the east (...) during a holiday season where we are also in harvest season for items important for food security in Venezuela.”

“That same day they were trying to affect the supply of fuel, the supply of diesel in Venezuela, fortunately we have reserves, we have inventory and we have been able to deal with this contingency but they have caused damage to Venezuela to the oil industry, which is still a strategic objective being targeted by the Pentagon,” he criticized.

Mazo News Team