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.
President Juan Manuel Santos addressed the stalled peace process this week, saying in an interview with Spanish media that if he is reelected, a peace agreement could be signed by the end of the year.
The departments of Arauca, Norte de Santander and Putumayo have felt the brunt of guerrilla attacks in 2014. As of April 28th, there have been 39 attacks on those departments, while Casanare and Meta face the greatest effect of social conflicts.
Incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were down to 33, below recent but above long-term averages. Non-Armed-Forces-reported incidents were just about 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 down correspondingly at 34.0 and the 52 week average was stable at 31.3 incidents per week.
The national government and the U’WA indigenous community have reached an agreement that will allow repair crews to access the damaged Caño Limon – Coveñas pipeline, which has been out of service since a bombing on March 25th.
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