Seven attacks against businesses were reported within just 12 days in the state of Zulia, located on the border with Colombia, according to local press reports. All the business owners said they had ...

MARACAIBO, Venezuela Dec 8 (Reuters) - Residents of Venezuela's northwestern Zulia state long ago became accustomed to the dark waters of Lake Maracaibo, tinted black by oil pollution.

Maracaibo is the formerly bustling metropolitan capital of Zulia, Venezuela’s most populous state. Once flush with oil money, the city still holds importance as the gate between the northwestern ...

Lake Maracaibo, South America's oldest and largest natural lake, ... More than a third of those 2022 spills, 31 in total, occurred in the state of Zulia in or around Lake Maracaibo.

Caracas, August 6, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com)— The Mayor of Maracaibo, GianCarlo DiMartino, in an open letter published the Venezuelan daily Últimas Noticias and addressed to Minister of Justice and ...

By 1950, Zulia state – with Maracaibo as it capital – accounted for more than half of Venezuela’s GDP. Fuelled by wealthy donors, ... Zulia produced 1.55 million barrels a day in 2001, ...

Maracaibo used to be the Dallas of Venezuela, its wealth fueled by oil. ... and the modern agricultural industry developed in the state of Zulia, of which Maracaibo is the capital.

In July 1914 oil drilling activities were formally initiated in the state of Zulia, in western Venezuela, with the opening of the historic Zumaque I oil well on the east shore of Lake Maracaibo ...

Catatumbo lightning on the Zulia State flag | Oleksii Liskonih/iStock via Getty Images. Indigenous people living around Lake Maracaibo take great pride in the lightning show.

The State of Zulia, which includes Maracaibo, borders Colombia, making leaving on foot easier for people who could not afford airfare. (The power went out again on Friday, when a major blackout ...