Colombia seeks truce in oil workers strike

The government works to mediate the dispute after violence leads employer Pacific Rubiales Energy to shut down the country's two most important oil fields.

The Colombian government is trying to broker peace between striking oil workers and their Canadian employer after violent clashes between protesters and police forced the closure of the country's two most important oil fields.

Toronto based Pacific Rubiales Energy shut down its Rubiales and Quifa oil fields in eastern Meta state Tuesday night after clashes left several workers injured and company equipment damaged. 

The two fields produce an average of 225,000 barrels of crude a day, or about one quarter of the 953,000 barrels in daily output the country averaged in August.