Cabimas
Americannoun
noun
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“All the great companies that used to exist were connected to the petroleum industry,” said Hollister Quintero, 32, a Cabimas native whose grandparents worked for foreign oil firms during the industry’s heady days.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
Special correspondent Mogollón reported from Cabimas and Times staff writer McDonnell from Mexico City.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
The collapse of the oil industry has left Cabimas, once one of the richest communities in Venezuela, in extreme poverty.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2023
The Elizalzabal and Silva families, who fish for a living, outside a family home on the shore of oil-contaminated Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela, 3 July.
From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2019
At the Cabimas Hospital on that shore, 80 percent of the outpatient visits are associated with oil spills and gas fumes, the foundation says.
From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2019
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