The National Association of Financial Institutions (ANIF) sounds like the bankers association but it is in fact an economics think tank. Once every four years, it turns its quantitative and model building skills to looking at presidential elections.
The latest rounds of talks in Havana started on Monday and this will look at the victims of the conflict, while back in Colombia the election that will define the future of the peace process is now less than two weeks away.
Colombia’s Orinoquia, which includes the oil producing departments of Casanare and Meta, have been left unprotected against economic interests, in particular the hydrocarbons industry, since government views it as an blank slate for whatever activity makes more money, says a group of academics participating in a recent forum.
The governor of Meta, Alan Jara, met with the Minister of Transportation, Cecilia Alvarez Correa, directors from the National Highway Institute (Invías) and representatives from the National Infrastructure Agency (ANI) to define details of a CoP$5T (US$2.6B) highway project being advanced by the central and departmental governments. This and other reports involving Colombia’s roads in the local press.
The Colombian Federation of Bio-fuels (Fedebiocombustibles) published an analysis criticizing government policies that favor hydrocarbons because they look like they were formulated to benefit Ecopetrol (NYSE:EC) and its goals, rather than explore other alternatives like bio-fuels.
We used press reports earlier this week to publish an article on the (supposedly) joint MinMinas / MinAmbiente decree on seismic. Now we have found the original MinAmbiente (only) press release and the draft decree.
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