The week after President Juan Manuel Santos was reelected, ensuring continuity of the current strategy in the Farc and now ELN peace talks, security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went down to 26 this week, below recent and long-term averages.
With President Juan Manuel Santos’ reelection an item of the recent past, the peace process rambles forward. Whether or not the new found pace and inclusion of the ELN guerrilla will hold is now our big question.
Despite a self-imposed truce by the Farc in the run-up to the second round of the Colombian presidential elections, security incidents near oil and gas infrastructure went up to 34 this week, at recent but just above long-term averages.
After more than a year of discussions the government and ELN guerrilla group announced this week that the two parties have agreed to an initial agenda and structure for roundtable talks, expanding the scope of the government’s peace initiative just ahead of presidential elections.
The ELN were active in the northeast but the Farc relatively well-behaved and incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were down again to 31, below recent and right at long-term averages.
The latest rounds of talks in Havana started on Monday and this will look at the victims of the conflict, while back in Colombia the election that will define the future of the peace process is now less than two weeks away.
One week after incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos was shocked by a first round defeat to Uribist candidate Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were down to 33, below recent but above long-term averages.
Óscar Iván Zuluaga’s win on Sunday, May 25 over incumbent President Juan Manuel Santos in the first election round has positioned the peace talks as the defining topic for the second presidential round coming on June 15th.
We thought that Llanos was appearing more frequently as a top source of security incidents in our weekly summary so we looked at the department of Meta, the largest and most important department for oil production in Colombia.
Repair work on the Caño Limon- Coveñas Pipeline has finally been completed after spending more than two months out of service after successive pipeline bombings and a conflict with the U´WA indigenous group that blocked repair crews.