The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.

Incumbents

Events

January

  • 1 January – 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.[1]
  • 19 January – A drug lord named Amaury Smith Pomare, who had long been wanted by the police, is arrested at his villa on the Atlantic coast of Honduras.[2]
  • 20 January – FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.[3]
  • 22 January – FARC rebels dynamite two southern oil pipelines and planted a bomb on the top coal exporter's northern railway after the end of a rebel ceasefire.[4]

February

  • 9 February – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia, causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.[5][6]
  • 25 February – Coffee growers of the country start a labour strike protesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.[7]

March

  • 8 March – The strike of the coffee growers is over.[8]

April

May

  • 5 May – A ceremony commemorating the first sacred indigenous land to be designated under a new protected land status occurs, formally transferring Jaba Tañiwashkaka in La Guajira to the Kogi people.[10]

June

July

  • 20 July – government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.[12]
  • 22 July – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.[13]

August

  • 19 August – An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.[citation needed]

September

October

  • 12 October – A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.[14]

November

  • 9 November – A gunman kills eight people in a bar in Cali.[15]

December

  • 9 December – Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, is removed from office and banned from re-taking it for fifteen years, due to a failing city cleaning policy promoted by him.[16]
  • 14 December – A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.[17]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ "Thirteen Colombian Farc rebels 'killed in air strike'". BBC News. 1 January 2013. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Colombian drug kingpins nabbed in Honduras and Panama". Fox News Latino. 19 January 2013. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  3. ^ "Colombia says FARC rebels hit two oil pipelines, coal rail line". Reuters. 22 January 2013. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Colombia says FARC rebels hit two oil pipelines, coal rail line". Reuters. 22 January 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  5. ^ Mach, Andrew (9 February 2013). "Strong 6.9 earthquake strikes Colombia; minor injuries reported". NBC News. Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  6. ^ "258 viviendas averiadas y ocho heridos deja sismo en todo el país" [258 homes damaged and eight wounded nationwide in earthquake]. El Tiempo (Colombia) (in Spanish). 9 February 2013. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  7. ^ "Comité de Cafeteros rechaza marchas". La Tarde (in Spanish). 14 February 2013. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Movimiento cafetero ordena levantar paro" (in Spanish). Government of Colombia.
  9. ^ "Bogota Recycler Nohra Padilla Praised on World Stage". wiego.org. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  10. ^ Butler, Rhett A. (28 May 2013). "Indigenous sacred sites now qualify as protected areas in Colombia". Mongabay Environmental News. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
  11. ^ "Venezuela arrests Colombians over Maduro assassination plot". BBC News. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  12. ^ "Colombian soldiers die in clashes". BBC News. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  13. ^ "Venezuelan, Colombian presidents put aside diplomatic dispute". 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  14. ^ "Building collapse in Colombia kills 1; 10 still missing". 14 October 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  15. ^ "Gunman kills eight in bar in Cali, Colombia". Reuters. 9 November 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  16. ^ "Bogota Mayor Ordered Removed From Office". 9 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  17. ^ "Thousands march for sacked Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro". BBC News. 14 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
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