1986 in Colombia

Incumbents

• President:
• * Belisario Betancur
• * Virgilio Barco Vargas
• Vice President: N/A

  Events

Ongoing

• Colombian conflict.
• Massacre of Trujillo.

  January

• 19th of April Movement guerillas ambush a National Army truck in Silvia, Cauca, killing several soldiers and taking three hostages. This triggers weeks long fighting in the department.

  February

• Fighting continues in the Cauca Department.

  March

• 9 March – The 1986 Colombian parliamentary election is held.
• 13 March – M-19 leader Álvaro Fayad is killed in a military operation.

  May

• 25 May – The 1986 Colombian presidential election is held.

  July

• 1-7 July – Saint John Paul II visits Colombia.

  October

• 22 October – 1986 Copa Libertadores finals: The first leg of the finals between Argentine club River Plate and Colombian club América de Cali is held at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium in Cali. América de Cali looses 1-2.
• 29 October – 1986 Copa Libertadores finals: The second leg of the finals is held at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, Argentina. América de Cali looses 0-1.

  November

• 16 November – Señorita Colombia 1986 is held.

  December

• 17 December – Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel murders El Espectador director and journalist Guillermo Cano Isaza. In the following 24 hours, the Colombian press at large protested his murder by not airing any radio or television news nor printing any print media.

  Uncertain

• The Central Union of Workers is founded.
• The Children's Museum of Bogotá is founded.
• The Colegio Cristiano El-Shaddai is founded in Barranquilla.

  Births

• 28 January – Miguel Uribe Turbay, politician.
• 10 February – Radamel Falcao, footballer.
• 25 April – Juan Sebastián Cabal, tennis player.
• 30 September – Cristián Zapata, footballer.
• 18 December – Jery Sandoval, actress, model, and singer
• Víctor Hugo Moreno Mina, activist.

  Deaths

• 31 January – Clímaco Sarmiento, musician and songwriter.
• 13 March – Álvaro Fayad, M-19 guerilla leader.
• 17 December – Guillermo Cano Isaza, journalist.