2013 in Colombia
The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.
Incumbents
- President: Juan Manuel Santos
- [Vice President of Brazil|President of Brazil|Vice President]: Angelino Garzón
Events
January
- 1 January – 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
February
- 9 February – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia, causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.
- 25 February – Coffee growers of the country start a labour strike protesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.
March
- 8 March – The strike of the coffee growers is over.
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.
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.
June
- 10 June – The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.
July
- 20 July – government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
- 22 July – The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.
August
- 19 August – An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.
October
- 12 October – A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.
November
- 9 November – A gunman kills eight people in a bar in Cali.
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.
- 14 December – A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.
Deaths
- 13 September – Graciela Salgado, drummer, singer, and songwriter