ACP as a source of information
GREMIO
Source: La República
Date: May 27
Headline: Winds of war? By: Carlos Alberto Leal Niño
The global geostrategic context has been presenting recent struggles between major powers like the USA, Russia, and China, where the European Economic Community and the rest of the world are witnessing firsthand, and above all directly affected by the consequences of the actions taken. (…) And it is that in its eagerness to maintain the global control it feels threatened, the USA has other no less important issues to resolve, such as the oil price crisis that jeopardizes its great potential for unconventional hydrocarbon production, which today positions it as the world's leading oil producer. (…) American companies like Chevron, Russian Rosneft, Italian Eni, Spanish Repsol, and even DirecTV have been directly affected by U.S. pressure, to which, under a friendly warning, they have been advised to cease all relations with the Maduro government.
Source: Vanguardia Liberal
Date: May 27
Headline: Murders of social leaders increased by 53%
The murders of social leaders in Colombia increased by 53 % in the first quarter of 2020, during which forced displacements also increased by 5 %, according to the report “Dynamics of Armed Confrontation and its Humanitarian and Environmental Impact” by the Ideas for Peace Foundation (FIP). (…) Ecopetrol reported that as of May 5, there were 25 attacks especially against the Caño Limón-Coveñas and Bicentenario pipelines, in the departments of Arauca, Norte de Santander, and Boyacá, all bordering Venezuela.
Source: Vanguardia Liberal
Date: May 27
Headline: Ecopetrol contracted $402,000 million with local suppliers
Barrancabermeja stands out among the municipalities with the highest local contracting in the first four months of the year, according to figures provided by Ecopetrol this week. According to the data released by the oil company, as of the fourth month of the year, it generated contracts for goods and services worth $402,000 million, all with suppliers from the ‘Central Region’, which covers 8 departments, mostly in the Magdalena Medio. (…) Likewise, Ecopetrol promotes that its allies contract goods and services from the local market. In fact, in the first months of the year, allied companies signed commercial contracts with suppliers from the Central Regional worth $130,000 million, among which suppliers from Barrancabermeja, Yondó, Sabana de Torres, Cantagallo, and Puerto Wilches benefited, among others.
Source: El Nuevo Día
Date: May 27
Headline: Murders of social leaders increased by 53%
“Environmental authorities and control agencies have expressed their concern because those who are cutting down and logging the forests are taking advantage of the health emergency,” highlights the FIP. The murders of social leaders in Colombia increased by 53% in the first quarter of 2020, during which forced displacements also increased by 5%, according to the report “Dynamics of Armed Confrontation and its Humanitarian and Environmental Impact” by the Ideas for Peace Foundation, FIP. (…) Ecopetrol reported that as of May 5, there were 25 attacks especially against the Caño Limón-Coveñas and Bicentenario pipelines, in the departments of Arauca, Norte de Santander, and Boyacá, all bordering Venezuela.
Source: Caracol Radio
Date: May 27
Source: pacocol.org
Date: May 27
Headline: Iván Duque with his back to the country
Outrageous, to say the least, is the spirit of the new decrees issued by the government of President Iván Duque, based on what could be called the second phase of the Social Emergency, which are aimed at stripping the rights of Colombian workers and privatizing the country's main business asset: Ecopetrol. In light of this dark scenario, the National Union of Public Servants of Districts and Municipalities of Colombia (UNES Colombia) urges all social, union, and democratic sectors to categorically reject through mobilization (…) Unacceptable from every point of view that the Uribe government, taking advantage of the health crisis that negatively and severely affects the national majority, issues a series of decrees aimed at further dismantling the Colombian state for the benefit of big capital, seeking the privatization of Ecopetrol and the public companies that are part of the so-called state financial holding, precisely in the current context, when asset prices due to the pandemic are quoted lower.
Topics
Source: El Espectador
Date: May 27
Headline: «The Amazon needs differential treatment»
The representative of the Democratic Center is the author of the project that sought for her department to be considered under a special regime, as happens with San Andrés, but which sank amid a heated discussion in the plenary of the Chamber. Last week, there was a significant digital mobilization in the country around the issue of natural resource exploitation and biodiversity. The focus of that discussion was the legislative act project that sought to create a special regime for the Amazon (…) Its author, representative Yénica Acosta (Democratic Center), originally from Leticia, did not foresee that in the fifth debate, in the First Commission, the project would be expanded to the entire Amazon region and an amendment would be added that outright prohibited mining and hydrocarbon exploitation in it. (…) There was a great consensus, except with that paragraph, which many requested to eliminate. From there, they started to say they wanted to introduce fracking to the Amazon.
Source: El Espectador
Date: May 27
Headline: Lip service
“Now is a great time to build a pipeline because there can't be protests of more than 15 people. Let's do it.» Sonya Savage, Minister of Energy of Alberta, Canada. Speaking on a podcast, Savage added that «people are not going to have the tolerance or patience for protests to interrupt the work of others.».
Institutional
Source: El Tiempo
Date: May 27
Headline: Leadership beyond politicians. By: Álvaro Restrepo
In a recent column in EL TIEMPO (May 22), titled ‘Where are the leaders?’, former Minister of Mines and Energy Carlos Caballero Argáez expresses his concern about the absence of political leadership to face the difficult situation we find ourselves in due to the coronavirus pandemic. While he acknowledges that the immediate, prudent, and judicious management of the current government in response to the crisis has been correct, he does not clearly see long-term proposals to redefine what he himself calls the new social contract that we will require (state-citizen relationship) and that will have to be established with the redesign of a new economy. He cites in his article another former minister, Juan Carlos Echeverry, who states that “covid-19 and the economic crisis are too serious a problem to leave it to economists and epidemiologists.” And for this reason, he calls for new leadership to face this unprecedented situation.
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