Government and Farc negotiators announced on Wednesday that an agreement had been reached on a bilateral and definitive cease fire. President Juan Manuel Santos and other heads of states gathered in Havana today (Thursday, June 23) to sign the agreement.
The Colombian Association of Natural Gas (Naturgas) has called on the national government to intervene at the Gibraltar gas plant after two indigenous groups blockaded the plant, trapping 19 employees inside for more than a month now, or face shortages in the area.
Looking for new ways to grow its already significant fuel and lubricant distribution business, Terpel put new emphasis on the quality of service offered to customers, adjusting its infrastructure to do so, and logged a 6% increase in sales as a result in 2015.
Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) worked with medical associations to offer several different health care initiatives, including 60 surgeries to correct cleft lip and palate in children living in the area of Barrancabermeja. This and other Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) stories in our periodic summary.
The Minister of Mines and Energy (MinMinas) Germán Arce confirmed that the ministry is open to studying a proposal from the truckers association to lower the price of diesel, as a trucker strike drags on since the beginning of the month.
Claudia González Hernández, the interim director of the National Agency of Environmental Licenses (ANLA) insists that the entity is merely enforcing the standards and norms as stipulated by law, and that it is not responsible for any drop in investment in projects.
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