Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López revealed that military personnel thwarted an attempt to sabotage the oil industry.

"They intended to cut and steal 1.250 meters of submarine cable, which serves to energize all the wells and power plants used in the oil industry in Zulia," the minister said this Saturday when he offered a partial assessment of the Strategic Operation Bolivarian Shield and its various activities between January and August 2025, carried out by 10.380 members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB).

While the minister described the details of the failed sabotage, a video was shown on the screens showing how they seized the pieces of the submarine cable that had already been cut in Lake Maracaibo.

The vice president of the Sovereignty and Defense sector also fr

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