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Colombian Ecopetrol warns of risk of fuel shortages due to refinery blockades

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Colombian state-owned oil company Ecopetrol warned on Wednesday, May 26, of the risk of fuel shortages due to blockades on the access roads to the Barrancabermeja refinery, the main refinery in the country, as part of the protests against the government.

Ecopetrol said that "a group of people, with the support of the Unión Sindical Obrera (USO)", has been blocking the roads leading to the Barrancabermeja refinery yesterday, in the department of Santander, in the center-east of the country.

"The situation puts at risk the normal supply of petroleum fuels, violates the . . .

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