The Colombian oil company Ecopetrol announced she will not be renewing mid-May-2016 the contract allowing Pacific Rubiales’ exploitation activities in the most important oil field of the country, handing over to the state-managed Colombian company the last 65 000 barrels per day of its production. The important Canadian oil extraction company Pacific Rubiales Energy has been found guilty in 2013 of a series of violations of labour and environmental rights as well as indigenous peoples’ rights by the People’s Court on extractive policies in Colombia.
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Les détails du cas de Carlos Alberto et des informations concernant celui de d'Alexander Tibacuy Laguado, arrêté peu après l'assassinat de Carlos. Ce deuxième cas semble participer de la même vague de persécutions envers le mouvement social en Colombie.
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Colombian social movement has been building peace for the past decades of social and armed conflict, looking for ways to find a negotiated solution to this conflict. A long lasting peace can only be the result of a peace process that would deal with the consequences and the causes of the conflict. Colombian social and armed conflict is rooted in the profound inequality of land distribution and has been growing with the imposition of an economic model based on extraction of natural resources: Palm oil, water, petroleum, gold, coal and other minerals.
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Members of the Indigenous community of Cerro Tijeras in northern Cauca Department, south-western Colombia, have been killed and others possibly forcibly disappeared. Further death threats against Indigenous Peoples in the area have also been reported.
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From August 15-30 2015, a new Caravan for the Defense of the Land will take place in Colombia, with the goal of shedding light on the human rights situation and land issues in both urban and rural areas. It will also denounce the prison crisis and the country's extradition policies.
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October 2014 Extractive Sector Extraction and Militarization From the Peasant and Indigenous Strikes to the Popular, Ethnic, Agrarian Summit The Peace talk and the peace process Political Prisoners Labor movement
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Ecopetrol's decision to take back control of the Rubiales field will imply heavier investment for it to sustain output and now raises the pressure on Canada's Pacific Rubiales to replace the future loss of nearly half its production, analysts say. Ecopetrol announced on Friday it would not renew a contract in mid-2016 under which Pacific Rubiales operates the field, putting the latter's 65,000 barrel per day share of output back in the Colombian state-run company's hands.
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Colombia's main oil workers' union, the USO, will hold an indefinite strike, its president told Reuters on Wednesday, in protest at widespread job cuts in the sector after a plunge in crude oil prices, but no start date has yet been set. A date for the stoppage would be fixed by March 26, said Edwin Castano moments after a meeting with members to vote on strike action.
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Sign online Bogotá, March 7, 2015
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