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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (14279)	8/28/2000 4:39:39 PM
From: Archie Meeties	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

LOL. They bomb that pipeline continuously. But it should draw some attention to Gore's holdings of OXY.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (14279)	8/28/2000 5:10:07 PM
From: Ken98	Respond to of 436258

I saw that too. Let's get in a civil war to support our drug and oil habits. Of note: <<BOGOTA, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Just days ahead of U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to Colombia, Marxist ``petro-guerrillas'' have vowed to continue their biggest-ever offensive against one of the Andean nation's top oil fields and main pipelines in protest at ``U.S. intervention''. ... State-run oil company Ecopetrol said Monday that production at the country's second largest oil field, run by U.S. multinational Occidental Petroleum Corp (NYSE:OXY - news), remained paralysed after three weeks. ``Plan Colombia'' is the name given by President Andres Pastrana to a U.S.-backed carrot-and-stick strategy designed to fight the booming drug trade and force the country's estimated 22,000 Marxist guerrillas to moderate their radical socialist demands at slow-moving peace talks. Last month, Clinton signed off on a record $1.3 billion package of mostly military aid which forms the backbone of Plan Colombia, whose total cost is estimated at $7.5 billion over three years. ... ``This is a very complex situation. It's a bad sign for investors. If this situation persists then oil companies will not invest in Colombia,'' Senator Hugo Serrano, a leading member of the Senate Energy Commission, told Reuters Monday. According to government figures issued earlier this month, foreign oil companies pulled out more than $424 million investments from Colombia's oil industry in the first quarter this year. Colombia, which currently has around 2.3 billion barrels of proven reserves, is set to become a net oil importer by 2005 if no major new finds come on stream before then. Experts estimate Colombia may have some 37 billion barrels of potential oil reserves but much of that lies in the 50 percent of the country controlled by the FARC and ELN. ...>> Drug intervention my left foot.