Ecopetrol, Guerillas and Death Squads The War for Colombia's Oil

Colombia ’s national oil company Ecopetrol , regarded as one of the best-managed state-controlled energy companies in Latin America, is still dealing with allegations of murder, extortion, and intimidation. Since the early 2000s, rumors have swirled over Ecopetrol ’s financing of rightwing paramilitary militias, which suppressed leftist guerillas, quashed organized labor, and quelled community dissent against controversial energy as well as mining projects.

By the 1980s, the ELN, which was founded in Santander in 1964, and FARC dominated the rural areas around Barrancabermeja and nearby municipalities. After the surrounding countryside had been pacified by Colombia’s security forces and militias linked to cocaine cartels in the early 1990s, Bogota directed that Barrancabermeja be cleansed.

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