2013 in Colombia
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The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018)
- Vice President: Angelino Garzón (2010-2014)
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 8 March – The strike of the coffee growers is over.[8]
April
[edit]- Nohra Padilla, a pioneer and executive director of the Association of Recyclers of Bogotá, was awarded the 2013 Goldman Environmental Prize for her contribution to waste management and recycling in Colombia.[9]
May
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 10 June – The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.[11]
July
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 19 August – An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.[citation needed]
September
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October
[edit]- 12 October – A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.[14]
November
[edit]December
[edit]- 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
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Deaths
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References
[edit]- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Colombia says FARC rebels hit two oil pipelines, coal rail line". Reuters. 22 January 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Comité de Cafeteros rechaza marchas". La Tarde (in Spanish). 14 February 2013. Archived from the original on 6 March 2016.
- ^ "Movimiento cafetero ordena levantar paro" (in Spanish). Government of Colombia.
- ^ "Bogota Recycler Nohra Padilla Praised on World Stage". wiego.org. Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO). Retrieved 25 April 2019.
- ^ Butler, Rhett A. (28 May 2013). "Indigenous sacred sites now qualify as protected areas in Colombia". Mongabay Environmental News. Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ^ "Venezuela arrests Colombians over Maduro assassination plot". BBC News. 10 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Colombian soldiers die in clashes". BBC News. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Venezuelan, Colombian presidents put aside diplomatic dispute". 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Building collapse in Colombia kills 1; 10 still missing". 14 October 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Gunman kills eight in bar in Cali, Colombia". Reuters. 9 November 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Bogota Mayor Ordered Removed From Office". 9 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Thousands march for sacked Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro". BBC News. 14 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
External links
[edit]- Media related to 2013 in Colombia at Wikimedia Commons