Colombia: July 12, 2001

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FARC has threatened to shut down oil production unless the oil companies agree to their extortion demands. The oil companies and the government have refused. As a result, there have been 109 attacks against oil facilities so far this year.  Oil is the nation's largest legal export (drugs are the largest.)

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