The USO’s major topics of discussion during this week were the ‘labor massacre’ to which workers of the Masa Stork plant will supposedly be put through, legal issues with Naviera Fluvial S.A, corruption and the consequences of Terpel’s so-called fuel monopoly.
After months of speculation, seems like negotiations between the Government and the ELN will start on February 7 in Quito, Ecuador, five days after the ELN releases former congressman Odín Sánchez.
Total security incidents dropped yet again in December 2016 but that was due to a fall-off in Armed Forces activities, not reduced guerrilla action.
Óscar Sánchez, president of USO Bucaramanga said that appointing Luis Guillermo Vélez Atehourtua as head of Ecopetrol’s health administration motivated them to start the year with a peaceful takeover Bucaramanga’s CAL (medical center).
The legal process to start the peace transition continues with an amnesty bill passing its first debate in congress, but the general public is skeptical on the agreement and its potential to bring peace.
Now a larger problem than attacks on pipelines or facilities, the illegal drug and mining trade and groups linked to the ELN guerrilla which steal crude using illegal valves has become one of Ecopetrol’s (NYSE:EC) primary concerns, and the activity also damages the ecosystem.
Oxy (NYSE:OXY) has restarted production at the Caño Limon field after halting the operation for more than a week following an escalation of attacks on the Coveñas/Caño Limon pipeline by the ELN guerrilla.
Colombia’s Constitutional Court approved the ‘Fast Track’ bill which allows the government to start implementing the peace agreements with the Farc, and now the bill must be debated and voted on in congress.
The government has said that December 1st, is the ‘D’ day marking the start of the post-conflict transition, but the Farc said that nothing will move forward until a “Fast track” amnesty bill for its members passes congress.
Our count of security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went up last month, about equally divided between those we ascribe to the guerrilla and those initiated to the Armed Forces.
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