2013 in Colombia
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Incumbents
- President: Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018)
- Vice President: Angelino Garzón (2010-2014)
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
March
- 8 March – 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]
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
- 10 June – The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.[11]
July
August
- 19 August – An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.[citation needed]
October
- 12 October – A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.[14]
November
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]
Deaths
- 13 September – Graciela Salgado, drummer, singer, and songwriter[18]
