The vice president of the USO’s Meta chapter, Dario Cardenas Pachon, was arrested on November 2 on a warrant connected to alleged crimes during protests, and the union says that its part of a wide reaching plot between oil companies and public services against its activities.
The National Registry has set a December 15th date for a public referendum in the Tauramena municipality to accept or reject oil production in parts of the community. The authority also confirmed the exact wording of the questions, which links the issue to local water issues.
Incidents near areas of interest to the oil and gas industry were back down this week to 29 below recent and long-term averages. Non-Armed Forces incidents were slightly above average at 17%. This is our indicator of increased guerrilla-initiated activity. Despite this, our 4-week Moving Average incident count was up to 33.5 but the 52 week average was down but essentially unchanged at 34.0 incidents per week.
Our Inner Circle Monthly Report for November 2013 marks the start of our second year of operation.
Pacific Rubiales (TSX:PRE) is planning to invest US$2B in 2014 with 30-35% going towards exploration, but says it is not currently planning any acquisitions after its recent buy of Petrominerales (TSX:PMG).
This week the political party of former President Alvaro Uribe chose its candidate for next year’s presidential election and already the dialogue in the media seems to be between President Juan Manuel Santos and Óscar Iván Zuluaga, representing Uribe’s ideology, adding another layer of complexity to the peace negotiations.
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