The guerrilla has not been necessarily committed to the peace process, and if they want to keep the negotiations going, they will have to follow president Duque’s conditions. Here are the details.
The new Collective Labor Agreement, valid for 4.5 years, could reduce production risks due to lower possibilities of having strikes.
The boom of anti-oil and mining popular referendums has created much discussion in the country about their use to prohibit extractive activities in the regions. The Mesa Hídrica del Piedemonte Llanero (MHP) spoke on this subject.
The union sued the NOC before the Attorney General for allegedly preventing the access of unionized workers to Barrancabermeja’s refinery.
The National Army confirmed that operations against Walter Arizala, alias ‘Guacho’, have restarted. Here are the details.
The oil sector has proposed the development of unconventional projects to increase the country’s oil reserves and ensure self-sufficiency in the long term. However, this has generated much controversy and many Colombians have expressed their rejection of this possibility.
The union spoke about Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) alleged lack of commitment to continue with the dialogue process and set a new Labor Agreement.
One of the hardest editing problems I have occurs whenever we have to write about security issues associated with former Farc guerrilla. The problems occur because of differences between Spanish and English, but mostly because of a ‘what-do-we-call-them’ issue. However, the real security issues are far bigger than any language challenges we might have.
The armed group released three soldiers in Arauca, but the release of hostages in Chocó remains ‘complicated’.
Ecopetrol (NYSE: EC) rejected the union’s violent acts in La Cira-Infantas field (Santander); one of Colombia’s main producing fields.