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.
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.
Authorities spoke about the measures they are taking to fight oil theft, and reported successful operations across the country. The development of these and other stories in our periodic Security summary.
The attack took place in the San Francisco village, municipality of Ricaurte (Nariño).
The union argued that there are strategies to privatize the NOC, weaken it, and then order its sale.
We are preparing a book (our first!) 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.
A group of locals in Yopal promoted the ‘For the Defense of Yopal’s Environment’ popular consultation, but did not gather the total number of signatures required by the National Registry.
The Army spoke about the operation in which it found explosives that the ELN was going to use to blow up Coveñas Caño Limón (CCL) once again. The development of these and other stories in our periodic Security summary.
Through a resolution, indigenous communities from Sucre declared USO members ‘persona non grata’ in their territories, arguing that they are sabotaging negotiations with oil companies.
Normally, the catch-phrase “Quiet. Too quiet” is a foreboding of something bad about to occur. But now it looks like this quiet security period will extend a long time, maybe as the ‘new normal’. Originally, we published this report weekly. Then we dropped to monthly and then quarterly, then only when there was something interesting to say. This quarterly article shows very little has changed or is likely to change. For that reason, we have decided that this is our last report.
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