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Article: Peru, Ecuador trade fire in border clash.
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- January 31, 1995
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WASHINGTON -- Oil and gold are the potential prizes to be won in a dispute between Peru and Ecuador over a 50-mile stretch of border.
Soldiers from the two countries last week started shooting at one another in a revival of a conflict that dates back more than 50 years.
But the fighting in the mountainous jungle area is not affecting oil operations, a Peruvian government spokesman said.
The contested area, forming the most southerly border of Ecuador, is inland from Peru's oil-producing Talara Basin but not as far east as the oil-rich Amazon region.
The main pipeline carrying crude from the northeastern Amazon region across the Andes to the coast ...