Colombia: In Colombia, Drilling Pays the Bills. The Country’s Leaders Want to Quit Oil.

Nov 15, 2022 | Max Bearak, New York Times
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Over the past four decades, Colombia has pumped billions of barrels of oil from under a vast savanna it shares with neighboring Venezuela. Through pipelines, the thick crude travels over the Andes and to the Caribbean coast, and then onto tankers, mostly to the United States. Much like another famous export of Colombia’s, it has an addictive quality.