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Bottom Line: Expressions of outrage over the killing of five Ecopetrol contractors at the hands of the Farc.

Bottom Line: The indigenous community consultation phase for the new Mining Code will start next week.

Bottom Line: Venezuela proposes maintaining prices between US$80 and US$120/barrel. Colombia agrees. The question of course is whether the price can be controlled in the face of demand-side uncertainty.

July 4, 2012 The  Colombian press has widely reported the death of five Ecopetrol maintenance sub-contractors in a bombing.

Bottom-Line: Fenoco transports thermal coal to the Colombian coast.The intervention will definitely cause disruption in the company.

Bottom Line: Cundinamarca coal producers say production will fall this year and want the government to expand available territory for production.