What has happened in Venezuela, according to the news?

A plane with more than 150 people on board has crashed in a remote part of northwestern Venezuela. A rescue effort is underway. The Venezuelan Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said the pilot had reported engine problems and asked to make an emergency landing in Venezuela. From Caracas lain Bruce reports.
     "It was at 3:07 a.m. local time that the Colombian airliner with 152 people on board reported mechanical problems with one of its engines. Venezuelan air traffic controllers say they lost contact with the plane some minutes later. Shortly afterwards, witnesses reported a large explosion in the Perija Hill near Venezuela’s border with Columbia. The president of Venezuela’s National Aviation Institute Francisco Paz said the crash site was located between two ranches in the area known as L. and N. Rescue teams from the city of Maracaibo have been sent to the scene by air and by land."