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I collected a few more articles this month (99) than last month (94) and Colombia had some dramatic incidents. But mostly this month was working through the details of the ELN ceasefire that starts the first week of August. More discussions in Buenaventura and trying to get back to the table with Alias Mordisco kept the High Commissioner and the President busy.

While President Gustavo Petro claims that the war between the State and insurgent groups was coming to an end, illegal armed groups disrupted public order in the southern region of Colombia.

In its passion to avoid auctioning additional oil and gas exploration contracts, the Petro government wants to revive 39 blocks that the ANH has suspended at the companies’ request. Is there really an opportunity to “return the suspension request to sender” and create new reserves and production? And if so, how much production could be affected?

Early in the month, the Colombian government and the ELN signed a ceasefire protocol which supposedly will let them negotiate substantial issues without the pressure of violence. We’ll see how that goes.

I have been sitting on this story since late May, not knowing whether to use it or where to use it. Technically, it is an energy-related story and so I should put it in ePowerColombia (ePC). But we deal with social conflict issues more in Hydrocarbons Colombia so it seems right to address the issue here.

Congress and the opposition once again called for Danilo Rueda’s head as violence flared and the dissident FARC process came apart even before the first formal meeting. The ELN process passed through some rocky moments when it looked like the government would suspend those dialogues as well, but the parties still talk in Havana.

National newspaper El Espectador used the phrase for an article on the upcoming third round with the ELN. It seemed like a good summary of April as things slipped through the government’s fingers.

Cenit announced the activation of an Emergency and Contingency Plan (PEC) after the attack that occurred on Sunday on the infrastructure of the TransAndino Pipeline (OTA) in the village of Chimamgual, rural area of the municipality of Guachucal, Nariño.

Emergencies in the hydrocarbon sector do not stop.

In the wake of yet another attack on the Coveñas-Caño Limón (CCL) oil pipeline, perpetrated by armed groups operating outside the law, Colombia’s oil industry is facing serious challenges.