In every one of his public addresses over the last week, President Juan Manuel Santos urged Colombians to support the peace agreement, as the government and its supporters gear up for an intense political campaign for the “yes” vote.
For the first time in several months, the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) has announced a change in fuel prices for the month of August: gasoline will rise slightly while diesel will fall, which the ministry says is a result of biofuels costs.
The International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) issued a report blasting the environmental and social impact which it alleges Pacific E&P has caused in Meta, and it was picked up in national media.
GasMinMinas finally released the June production figures for gas and there was yet another monthly decline, the fifth such decline in a row. The graph shows quarterly data which perhaps shows more dramatically how much it has fallen.
The explosive growth of blockades, protests and social conflicts has a direct impact on the finances of the regions responsible for them, and a recent study from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) sought to quantify how much these conflicts are costing.
The government supplied more than CoP$12.723B (US$4.1M) to eight municipalities in the Cesar Department as production incentives for social or development projects. This and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) related stories in our periodic summary.