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Reuters
30-07-2025
- Reuters
Explosives attack suspends crude pumping through Colombia's Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline
BOGOTA, July 30 (Reuters) - An explosives attack in northern Colombia has forced the suspension of crude oil pumping through the Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline, operator Cenit, a subsidiary of state-run oil producer Ecopetrol, said on Wednesday. The attack occurred in a rural area in the Arauquita municipality and left no injured or dead, but caused Cenit to activate emergency protocols to contain the oil spill, the firm said. Cenit did not attribute the attack to any organization, but the nation's armed forces say that the National Liberation Army (ELN), a guerrilla group, as well as dissidents who splintered off from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), are present in the area. The Cano Limon-Covenas pipeline, able to pump up to 210,000 barrels of crude a day over 773 kilometers, is a frequent target of attacks, according to Cenit.
Times
05-07-2025
- Times
On the front line of Colombia's cocaine war
In northern Colombia, two guerrilla groups are at war. They're fighting for control of one of the world's top coca-producing regions — and the billion-dollar cocaine industry that comes with it. Across the world, people are taking more cocaine than ever. Users from the UK to Europe and the US are estimated to consume up to six tonnes of the drug every day. Since January, more than 65,000 people in Colombia have been forced to flee their homes in the worst violence in the country for a decade. The Colombian army is trying to push the guerilla groups back. But they're stretched incredibly thin. We spent weeks travelling through the mountainous region in the country's north talking to coca farmers, displaced civilians, the army and the guerrilla groups themselves to try to understand how the cocaine industry works — and why it's brought Colombia back to war.
