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2013 in Colombia

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Other events of 2013Timeline of Colombian history

The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.

Contents

January

  • January 1 - 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

    • February

  • February 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.

    • June

  • June 10 - The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.

    • July

  • July 20 - 17 government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
  • July 22 - The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.

    • August

  • August 19 - An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.

    • October

  • October 12 - A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.

    • November

  • November 9 - A gunman kills eight people in a bar in Cali.

    • 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.
  • December 14 - A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.

    • References

    2013 in Colombia Wikipedia
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