2013 in Colombia
List of events
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The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.
Incumbents
- President: Juan Manuel Santos
- Vice President: Angelino Garzón
Events
January
- January 1 - 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.[1]
- January 19 - 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]
- January 20 - 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]
- January 22 - 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
- February 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.[5][6]
- February 25 - Coffee growers of the country start a labour strike protesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.[7]
March
- March 8 - The strike of the coffee growers is over.[8]
April
- 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]
June
- June 10 - The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.[10]
July
- July 20 - 17 government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.[11]
- July 22 - The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.[12]
August
- August 19 - An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.[citation needed]
October
- October 12 - A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.[13]
November
December
- December 9 - 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.[15]
- December 14 - A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.[16]
References
- ^ "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". 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.
- ^ "Venezuela arrests Colombians over Maduro assassination plot". 10 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Colombian soldiers die in clashes". 21 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ "Venezuelan, Colombian presidents put aside diplomatic dispute". 23 July 2013. 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". 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". 14 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
