The Colombian government faces persistent social and political challenges to a broader peace deal that it hopes to forge with the country’s main rebel group, Farc. Bogota is grappling with a prolonged oil pipeline shutdown, a protest at a natural gas field and a truckers’ strike. Oil pipeline bombings, a hallmark of the government’s five-decade domestic conflict with Marxist rebels, have diminished, but have not been eliminated. State-controlled oil firm Ecopetrol’s 220,000 b/d Cano Limon-Covenas crude pipeline has been off line for repairs since 4 July and the company still does not have a target date for restart. Colombia’s second-largest rebel group, ELN, which is not involved in the Cuba-based peace talks with Farc, bombed the line in Teorama municipality, in the eastern province of Norte de Santander.
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