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A: Ecopetrol

A: Ecopetrol

There has been much attention focused on Ecopetrol, the state-owned oil company (this is a region of Colombia that produces 80% of Colombia's oil; the oil refinery is to Barranca what UF is to Gainesville). Workers there are opposed to Uribe's plan to privatize the company.

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