http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/25213-28000-troops-arrive-in-tense-cauca-department.html
President Juan Manuel Santos is not fooling around.
Troubled Cauca province has experienced a recent surge of FARC violence...and now it will get 28,000 more troops.
Santos is sending in an army division...along with navy and air force special units.
AND: State run Ecopetrol reports that...because of 67 rebel attacks on oil infrastructure from Jan-May...it lost 11,000 bpd/barrels per day.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/24/colombia-ecopetrol-idUSL2E8IOB0E20120724
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