Guerrillas are active in the Colombian provinces of Arauca and NortedeSantander.
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In the Catatumbo region of Colombia's NortedeSantander department, near La Pista, some 23, 000 hectares of coca plantations are under guerrilla protection.
ECONOMIST: Colombia and its neighbours
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The statement came three weeks after the ELN kidnapped a group of employees of an international mining firm, also in NortedeSantander province.
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