[news] Colombia's Ecopetrol Gets Yet Another Corporate Welfare Check From U.S. Government

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

**“...The Fleecing of U.S. Taxpayers: Colombian Oil Pipeline Security”**  
By Stephen Peacock

For the second time this month, the U.S. Trade & Development Agency (USTDA) has figured out a way to siphon money from the U.S. Treasury and transfer it to Ecopetrol of Colombia. 

Whereas the previous handout (see Narcosphere Jan. 3) was geared toward the modernization of the thriving company's Barrancabermeja refinery complex, the most recently discovered scheme provides yet another smokescreen for the fleecing of U.S.

  


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