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.
Despite a unilateral truce by the Farc to respect the presidential election, incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were up again to 40, above recent and long-term averages.
With a matter of days before the first round of Presidential elections, Farc and government negotiators announced that they have finally reached an agreement on the third agenda point: the illegal drug trade.
Colombia’s Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón said that thanks to taxes on the mining and oil sectors the country has been able to strengthen its military capacity in three specific areas: equipment and overall capacity, well-being and moral as well as its legal foundations.
Incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were up to 39, above recent and long-term averages. Non-Armed-Forces-reported incidents were more than double in both percentage and absolute terms. This is our indicator of increased guerrilla-initiated activity. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was steady at 35.0 but the 52 week average was down at 31.1 incidents per week.
Farc leader and negotiator alias “Jesús Santrich” told reporters that the parties are “three or four paragraphs” away from an agreement on the illegal drug trade, as another round of talks started this week in Havana.
Incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were down to 32, below recent but above long-term averages. Non-Armed-Forces-reported incidents were below average in percentage terms and in absolute terms. This is our indicator of increased guerrilla-initiated activity. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was up however at 35.0 but the 52 week average was down at 31.1 incidents per week.
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