Venezuelan official: Authorities thwart oil refinery attack

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s oil minister said Friday that security forces have thwarted an attack on a key refinery as the nation with vast oil reserves struggles to meet its domestic gasoline demands. Two Venezuelans were arrested Thursday and investigators confiscated explosives the suspects planned to use in an attack on El Palito refinery on the nation’s northern Caribbean coast, Minister of Petroleum Tareck El Aissami said in a…