2009 in Colombia
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Incumbents
Events
February
- February - FARC frees a former provincial governor along with five other high-profile hostages since 2001.
March
- 18 March - FARC releases a Swedish engineer thought to be the rebel group's last foreign hostage.[1]
November
- November - President Alvaro Uribe signs a deal giving the US military access to seven military bases.[2]
December
- December - Marxist rebel groups intend to stop fighting each other and focus on attacking the Colombian armed forces.[3]
- December - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez orders 15,000 troops to the Colombian border.[4]
Deaths
- 10 January - Liliana Lozano, 30, Colombian actress and beauty queen, shot.[5]
- 16 March - Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987).[6]
- 13 May - Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador.[7]
- 30 May - Alexander Obregón, 32, Colombian footballer, car accident.[8]
- 5 June - Helena Benítez de Zapata, 93, songwriter, politician, teacher, and journalist.[9]
- 18 July - Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot.[10]
- 29 August - Gustavo Martínez Frías, 74, Colombian archbishop of Nueva Pamplona.[11]
- 11 September - Julio Bovea, 75, musician.[12]
- 20 September - Herman Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.[13]
- 1 November - Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto.[14]
- 6 November - Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira.[15]
- 21 December - Jaime Agudelo, 84, Colombian comedian, respiratory failure.[16]
- 22 December - Luis Francisco Cuéllar, 69, Colombian politician, Governor of Caqueta, assassination.[17]
