SPANISH LOOKOUT, Belize — This tiny country struck oil in much the same way Jed Clampett stumbled on a gusher in the Ozarks. A few years ago, a Mennonite farmer dug a shallow well in this ...

A boy rides past an oil well near his home in Spanish Lookout on Friday. The wells dot the dairy farms of German-speaking Mennonites who moved to Belize 50 years ago from Canada and Mexico.

Belize has restored crude output to about 2500 barrels per day after its Spanish Lookout field production facilities shut down briefly following an oil spillage, writes Barry Morgan. The spill ...