News Links covering Putumayo, Colombia
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Monday, May 20, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Energy, Environment, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Putumayo |
| Title: | Atentado de Farc a oleoducto deja emergencia ambiental en Putumayo |
| Author/Source: | John Montano El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Comando de las Farc dinamito un tramo del oleoducto San Miguel, en Orito. |
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Energy, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca, Putumayo |
| Title: | Colombia Rebel Bombings Shut Two of Ecopetrol's Main Oil Pipelines |
| Author/Source: | Dow Jones Fox Business |
| Brief: | Police say at least one of the two attacks, which combined have halted the pumping of more than 100,000 barrels of oil, was committed by Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia |
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Norte de Santander, Putumayo |
| Title: | Tras fin de la tregua, llegaron los ataques |
| Author/Source: | Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Uno de ellos se registro en Norte de Santander, contra la estacion de Policia de Hacari, y los otros en Putumayo, contra la infraestructuras petrolera y energetica de Orito |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Talks, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Putumayo |
| Title: | Colombia's FARC Rebels Blow Up Pipeline |
| Author/Source: | The Wall Street Journal |
| Brief: | The bombing against the pipeline, which took place Sunday evening, is an opening salvo that marks the end of two months of relatively few military actions by the FARC |
Monday, October 22, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Putumayo |
| Title: | 5 Colombian soldiers killed in rebel ambush |
| Author/Source: | EFE Fox News Latino |
| Brief: | Members of the Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia, or FARC, guerrilla group detonated a bomb as some military vehicles were traveling between the hamlets of Puerto Vega and Teteye. |
Thursday, October 11, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Caqueta, Putumayo |
| Title: | Crecen bloqueos en Caqueta y Putumayo por movilizaciones campesinas |
| Author/Source: | John Montano El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La entrada de multinacionales al departamento, la explotacion minero energetica que estaria afectando los recursos naturales de la region, son entre otros los argumentos de los manifestantes. |
Monday, July 23, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Energy, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Energy, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca, Putumayo |
| Title: | Colombian rebels blow up Cano-Limon oil pipeline |
| Author/Source: | Reuters |
| Brief: | The assault by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as the FARC, happened on Saturday in the north of Boyaca province and spilled crude oil into a nearby river. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Energy, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Energy, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca, Putumayo |
| Title: | FARC attack halts Colombian pipeline operation, causes crude spill |
| Author/Source: | EFE Fox News Latino |
| Brief: | The spill in eastern Colombia comes a few hours after another spill affected Putumayo province in the southwest, where the FARC staged three attacks on the Transandino pipeline. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | News Email, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Arauca, Caqueta, Narino, Putumayo |
| Title: | 'Atentados muestran que Farc estan acorraladas': presidente Santos |
| Author/Source: | El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Visito Caqueta tras ataque a puente. Tres pueblos de Arauca sin agua por voladura de oleoducto. |
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Category: | Indigenous Communities, Politics And Security, Recent Violence |
| Colombia Region: | Putumayo |
| Title: | Ahora, miles de indigenas y campesinos marchan, pero en Putumayo |
| Author/Source: | John Montano El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Dos mil personas salieron de Puerto Asis hacia Mocoa. Exigen soluciones ante el conflicto. |