2007 in Colombia

The following lists events that happened during 2007 in Colombia.

Incumbents

President: Álvaro Uribe Vélez
[Vice President of Brazil|President of Brazil|Vice President]: Francisco Santos Calderón

15 January – Colombian police arrest Eugenio Montoya, also known as Don Hugo, suspected of being a leader of the Norte del Valle syndicate, which is described by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the “most powerful and violent drug-trafficking organization in Colombia”.

15 February – Six Colombian legislators are arrested due to alleged links to paramilitary groups, including Senator Álvaro Araújo, the brother of Foreign Minister María Consuelo Araújo.
19 February – Colombian foreign minister María Consuelo Araújo resigns days after the arrest of her brother, Senator Álvaro Araújo, in the country's ongoing para-political scandal. President Álvaro Uribe Vélez appoints Fernando Araújo as the new Minister.

23 March – Jorge Noguera, former Colombian intelligence chief, is freed from prison following a ruling by an appeals court after having been jailed last month for collaborating with right wing militia.

26 April – A nationwide mid-morning power outage hits Colombia; government sources discount guerrilla activity and blame a technical fault.

9 May – At least nine Colombian policemen are killed, and six others injured, from a bomb planted by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia in Santander Department.
14 May – Jorge Daniel Castro, the head of the Colombian National Police force and Guillermo Chavez, the intelligence chief, resign over an illegal wiretapping scandal.

10 July – Simón Trinidad, a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is found guilty of conspiracy to hold three Americans hostage by a U.S. court.
28 July 28 – Colombia's intelligence chief Andrés Peñate claims FARC rebels accidentally killed 11 politicians it was holding, after running into another rebel unit.
30 July 30 – Juan Manuel Santos, the Defense Minister of Colombia, claims that the military has been infiltrated by FARC and drug gangs.

7 August – Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia, Colombian cocaine trafficker boss of the Norte del Valle Cartel is apprehended in Brazil and faces extradition to the United States. The US Government had offered a reward of US$5 million.

13 October – At least 20 people die following a landslide at an open pit gold mine near Suarez in the Tolima department.