From Hsinhua )
in explosion took place in the U,3,. Shell 0il Company in Catalina, northeast of Maracaibo, the oil-producing contre in the west of Venezuela, during the wook, according to a Caracas report. The explosion caused operations at fifteen 011 wells to come to a standstill when dynamite was thrown into the company's installations, Lata last October, after the U.S, had announced the Cuba blockade, and explosion took place in the plant of the Creole Petroleum Company, affiliated to the U.S. Standard Oil Company. The explosion paralysed one-sixth of Venezuela's oil production, This coecurred after the Mational Directorate of the Venezuelan Liberation Army had issued an order for armed action against U.S. installations, personnel, and properties in Venezucla,