Summary
Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel its joint venture with U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) over environmental concerns.
The $880 million project in the Permian Basin, set to produce 90,000 barrels per day, involved fracking, a practice Petro strongly opposes. He urged reinvesting in clean energy instead.
While Colombia bans domestic fracking, this marks the first time it has blocked an overseas fracking deal.
I disagree. You underestimate the amount of people here at my old Latin America that just simps for north americans, no matter what
Did they miss how Trump strong-armed the very same Colombia with the immigration planes? Is the misinformation that strong there already?
decades of indoctrination wouldn’t change simply because of that