This week the peace process passed an important milestone after the Colombian government and Farc delegates reached an agreement over land reforms. The agreement, announced on Sunday, had by Monday become a top news item around the world.
The Farc and ELN are actively promoting blockades using the general population to disrupt production in a key economic sector, Colombia’s Vice Minister of defense Jorge Bedoya was quoted as saying.
The peace delegations of Colombia’s government and the Farc have produced the first major agreement –on land reforms- to come out of peace talks held in Havana, Cuba.
Counts were down to 32 below recent and long-term averages. This was an above average week for guerrilla-initiated incidents and there were some very serious events that were outside our definition of hydrocarbons-related. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was down slightly to 36.3 incidents and the 52 week average was up slightly 37.8 incidents per week.
The peace process in Colombia awaits a crucial date on Saturday, May 25, when the 9th round of peace talks is scheduled to draw to a close, and according to local paper El Tiempo the issue of land rights should take center stage as a make or break item in the ongoing process. According to the report, a proposed agreement over land rights, and its success or failure, is likely to be revealed this coming Sunday.
A Sunday bombing of the San Miguel-Orito Pipeline in the Putumayo department, forced authorities to suspend the pipeline’s use, in an attack that Ecopetrol says comes from the Farc.
Colombian oil producer THX has denied any relationship to a man suspected of links to the Colombian underworld, Gabriel Ricardo Morales Fallón, who allegedly coordinated the use of a company plane for Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla.
Counts were down very slightly to 40 above recent and long-term averages. This was a below average week for guerrilla-initiated activities but since there was a pipeline attack, the week was hardly tranquil. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was up to 37.0 incidents and the 52 week average was up to 37.7 incidents per week.
Not normally do two public figures tend to share headlines, but this week the peace talks in Colombia received the attention of both former US President Bill Clinton and the newly anointed Pope Francis, who both expressed their support to the peace process to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in separate instances.
Counts were up significantly to 41 considerably above recent and long-term averages. This was an average week for non-Armed Forces i.e. guerrilla-initiated events which means both guerrilla and Armed Forces activities were up. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was up to 34.5 incidents and the 52 week average was up to 37.5 incidents per week.
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