This week the peace process started again in Havana on July 1st, but the headline this week was the entry of the ELN, a revolutionary group which split from the FARC decades ago, but after a meeting between leaders of the two guerrilla forces in June, is now lining up to take a role in the peace process.
Counts were down for the third week in a row to 23 below recent and long-term averages. This was a much lighter than normal week for non-armed forces reported/guerrilla-initiated incidents. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was down to 31.3 incidents (down for the sixth straight week) but the 52 week average was up slightly again to 39.2 incidents per week.
The 10 demands and subsequent additions by the Farc last week made a big splash and Colombia’s major political figures left no doubt that these new demands, which greatly widened the agreed agenda, were not on the table for discussion.
More than 40 points of the Catatumba pipeline were detonated over the weekend creating an environmental emergency as crude flows into the surrounding area.
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday called on the Farc to keep their word and stick to the agreed agenda in the peace negotiations in Havana, discarding any notion that he would negotiate on the new terms.
Counts were down slightly to 29 below recent and long-term averages. This was a normal week for non-armed forces reported i.e. guerrilla-initiated incidents. Our 4-week Moving Average incident count was down to 32.3 incidents but the 52 week average was up slightly again to 39.1 incidents per week.
This week marked the second week since peace talks resumed on June 11, with the Farc attempting to expand the reach of an agreement on social participation by publishing a number of demands that it says are minimal for any final agreement to be reached.
Government and Farc negotiators resumed talks in Havana this week, as the focus now moves past the land reform deal into new fronts, with a constant hum of politics and controversy as a backdrop along with constant positioning ahead of next year’s elections.
Attacks on Ecopetrol’s pipeline infrastructure have nearly doubled in 2013 and as of the end of May, the count had reached 90, a radio report quoted an Ecopetrol executive as saying.
Better protection for union leaders has been a resurgent theme and last week was the only issue the USO addressed in statements on its website.
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