Whistleblower Reveals Colombia’s Oil Spill Coverups

For decades, Colombia’s national government ignored transgressions involving the strife-torn country’s oil industry. A drill-at-all-costs mentality saw successive administrations, from the late-1980s, aggressively drive exploitation of Colombia’s hydrocarbon resources to boost the war-ravaged economy regardless of the fallout. This saw Bogota ignore a multitude of human rights abuses, severe environmental damage, and violent incidents which rocked the strife-torn nation. Even Colombia’s first leftist President Gustavo Petro,…