2013 in Colombia
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The following lists events that happened in2013inColombia.
Incumbents
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[edit]January
[edit]- January 1 - 13FARCmembers 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 ofHonduras.[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
[edit]- February 9 - Amagnitude 6.9 earthquakestrikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.[5][6]
- February 25 - Coffee growers of the country start alabour strikeprotesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.[7]
March
[edit]- March 8 - 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 2013Goldman Environmental Prizefor her contribution towaste managementandrecyclingin Colombia.[9]
June
[edit]- June 10 - TheVenezuelangovernment arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate PresidentNicolás Maduro.[10]
July
[edit]- 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
[edit]- August 19 - An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.[citation needed]
October
[edit]- October 12 - A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.[13]
November
[edit]December
[edit]- December 9 -Gustavo Petro,mayor ofBogotá,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
[edit]- ^"Thirteen Colombian Farc rebels 'killed in air strike'".BBC News.1 January 2013.Archivedfrom the original on 8 November 2014.Retrieved8 November2014.
- ^"Colombian drug kingpins nabbed in Honduras and Panama".Fox News Latino.19 January 2013. Archived fromthe originalon 8 November 2014.Retrieved8 November2014.
- ^"Colombia says FARC rebels hit two oil pipelines, coal rail line".Reuters.22 January 2013.Archivedfrom the original on 26 January 2013.Retrieved8 November2014.
- ^"Colombia says FARC rebels hit two oil pipelines, coal rail line".22 January 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
- ^Mach, Andrew (9 February 2013)."Strong 6.9 earthquake strikes Colombia; minor injuries reported".NBC News.Archivedfrom the original on 12 February 2013.Retrieved8 November2014.
- ^"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.Archivedfrom the original on 15 July 2014.Retrieved8 November2014.
- ^"Comité de Cafeteros rechaza marchas".La Tarde(in Spanish). 14 February 2013. Archived fromthe originalon 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).Retrieved25 April2019.
- ^"Venezuela arrests Colombians over Maduro assassination plot".10 June 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
- ^"Colombian soldiers die in clashes".21 June 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
- ^"Venezuelan, Colombian presidents put aside diplomatic dispute".23 July 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
- ^"Building collapse in Colombia kills 1; 10 still missing".14 October 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
- ^"Gunman kills eight in bar in Cali, Colombia".9 November 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
- ^"Bogota Mayor Ordered Removed From Office".9 December 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
- ^"Thousands march for sacked Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro".14 December 2013.Retrieved14 January2015.
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