OIL AND WAR, architects of the twentieth century history

The US Supreme Court ruled that a US corporation has the same rights as a private citizen. Hence the US government considers legitimate to have interests in any region of the world where they are American companies. Many business interests are also government interests and, by extension, military interests.



Also, while the United States released a war against the people of Vietnam, the company Mobil was off-shore prospecting in what they called "South Vietnam". In the 1990s, Mobil won an exploration license in the same fields where it was three decades before (Blue Dragon 280 Km. Mekong Delta), but left not find commercial reserves.



2. BLOOD AND CRUDE IN LATIN AMERICA
In Latin America there have been at least two wars in the decade of the 40 were related to oil: the Chaco War, in which Paraguay lost a portion of the country with significant oil reserves, and Ecuador-Peru war.

In the 80s, the civil war that ravaged Guatemala, focused on Izxcan area where oil exploration is, after the indigenous population was forced to move at the time.


PLAN COLOMBIA:

But the most recent case is that of Plan Colombia, which aims to control oil production in that country.
The Colombia Plan has focused on the Putumayo region in the Amazon region of the country, where although oil production is not very important, the new tenders we suggest that reserves could be greater than the known.
Most of the production is handled directly by Ecopetrol, but there are partnership contracts with US companies.