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Gustavo Petro, who continues to lead electoral polls along with Ivan Duque, spoke about his proposals regarding the mining-energy industry.

The Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas), together with the Mining and Energy Planning Unit (UPME) and the Territorial Development Finance (FDT), presented the Energy Efficiency Awards for 2018.

The Inspector General’s Office started an investigation for alleged irregularities in the handling of foreign resources to be allocated in the post-conflict process. These and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) stories in our periodic summary.

Geopark Limited (NYSE: GPRK) announced the testing results of the Tigana Norte 9 appraisal well located in the Tigana oil field in the Llanos 34 block. The company also announced the date to report its 2018 first quarter financial results.

The environmental emergency in La Lizama generated changes, including, according to the press, potential impacts on the development of Ecopetrol’s (NYSE: EC) pilot project for fracking.

The Casanare Administrative Court made a decision on the rupture of a flow line in the Casanare block which occurred in 2012. The National Agency of Environmental Licenses (ANLA), Corporinoquia and Perenco are involved in this case.

The union said that the final week of negotiations between USO Arauca and Occidental de Colombia (OXY) officially started, and spoke about the issues that concern them the most.

The HCC Analyst was concerned to see his graph of oil prices and the Colombian peso / USD exchange rate used in Friday’s newsletter without – in his opinion – the proper caveats. He demanded time to explain what was happening more carefully. (We think deep down he did not have anything else prepared, but we do agree that Friday’s article glossed over some important points.)

As I told you last time, we are preparing a book so I needed to reread all our weekly summaries about the FARC peace process. It was interesting to see what had changed, what was still an issue, what we thought was important from reading the Colombian press and what I had expected to be important, but which got very little attention. Here I look deeper into the topics we covered and what they might mean.

Oil prices and dollar exchange rates are two of the most-watched metrics in the country. These two have had a variable behavior in recent months. Mauricio Cárdenas, Minister of Finance, spoke on this issue and the benefits of an increase in oil prices.