Colombian guerrillas bomb pipeline in third attack this year.

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Fuente: The Globe and Mail.

Colombian rebels bombed an oil pipeline and paralyzed 80,000 barrels per day of crude transport but exports from Latin America’s No. 4 oil producer were not affected, the state energy company Ecopetrol said on Sunday.

It was the third attack on the 780-kilometre Cano Limon-Covenas line blamed on leftist rebels since late February. The rebels commonly target infrastructure in their decades-long conflict with the government