The first negotiations of 2016 have gotten started in Havana this week. The holiday season was calm for the most part, but the March 23 deadline to sign a final agreement looms in the immediate future. Then the hard work to implement the peace transition must take shape.
In the latest advance from Havana, government and Farc negotiators announced that they have reached an agreement on both transitional justice and victim restitution.
At HCC, we abide by the rule that we should not publish articles that are obvious or have nothing new to say. Around the office we use the rule that the worst possible title for an article would be “Man does not bite dog”. We have published a number of articles on security over the past four months but the last time we published both of our standard graphs was on September 14th. Since then there has been little to say beyond: still few incidents; ELN the only problem. However, with the end of the year approaching, we update the graphs and talk about what has – or has not – happened.
The National Planning Department (DNP) released a study on the economic dividends of a peace agreement and said that the positive effects of peace will show starting in three years. Meanwhile the kidnapping of a soldier has caught national attention.
A magistrate in Putumayo has filed a case with the Constitutional Court which alleges that an indigenous community (Awá) in the department has not received their due rights and called for E&P activities to be halted.
The Farc commander Rodrigo Londoño, alias ‘Timochenko’ has accepted a government proposal to form a special conclave in Havana in order to advance the talks at a quicker pace. The guerrilla has also proposed establishing a special peace district to concentrate their members in the transition period.
In an effort to bridge the gap between communities in oil producing regions, the industry and the national government, the National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH) held a special event called the Knowledge Fair for the Hydrocarbons Territorial Strategy (ETH).
Improvised, illegal and dangerous valves installed along Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) pipelines are causing it to lose a growing amount of crude, also resulting in risks of severe environmental damage.
This Thursday, November 19 the peace process in Havana marked its third anniversary involving more than 500 days of talks in the Cuban capital. While there is certain progress, time is running out on a March 23 deadline to sign a final agreement, as the parties cannot get past the issue of transitional justice.
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