You are probably reading this on October 4th, 2022, less than two months after Gustavo Petro was sworn in as Colombia’s president. Amongst other broad commitments he said “I will work to achieve true and definitive peace.” Specifically, he announced that he would immediately begin negotiations with the ELN. Shortly after that, Petro began talking about a “Total Peace”, incorporating not only the ELN but the narcos who continue to terrorize parts of the country.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) reported a serious situation in La Cira Infantas field.
On May 1st2021, the Colombian government lifted most restrictions related to Covid-19. It also stopped issuing daily statistical bulletins. Two years and two months after it began, the pandemic seems to be over in Colombia. We assume (hope) that this will, therefore, be our last publication of these statistics and we only do so because they show the complete course of the disease in Colombia.
ELN developed a national armed strike.
Authorities held a security council with the goal of creating a strategy to improve security conditions in Arauca.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) confirmed that contractor Diego Fernando Lozano was released after spending 22 days kidnapped.
A caravan of tanker trucks was attacked with rifle fire while traveling on the road that connects the municipalities of San Vicente del Caguán with Puerto Rico, northern Caquetá.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) said that the La Cira Infantas field suffered a terrorist attack.
An employee of the consulting firm Consultec, in the service of Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC), was kidnapped on January 13th, in Tibú (Norte de Santander).
Theft from oil pipelines in Colombia is booming as criminal gangs look to replace dwindling supplies of smuggled Venezuelan gasoline for use in the drug trade.
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