1991 in Colombia

Incumbents

• President: César Gaviria.
• Vice President: N/A.

Events

Ongoing

• Colombian conflict.
• Massacre of Trujillo.

January

• 15 January – The second-highest-ranking member of the Medellín Cartel, Jorge Luis Ochoa, surrenders to authorities.

February

• 16 February – Juan David Ochoa Vásquez of the Medellín Cartel surrenders to authorities.
• 22–23 February – Colombian Communist Party member Rosalba Camacho and five of her family members are murdered in Montoso, Prado, Tolima. Two of her sons had also been killed in 1990.

March

• 1 March – The Popular Liberation Army formally agrees to demobilize.
• 7 March – Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia kill five National Policemen in El Retorno, Guaviare.

April

• 20 April – 1991 Categoría Primera B season.
• 30 April – Former Justice Minister Enrique Low Murtra is shot and killed.

May

• 30 May – In a communiqué, Pablo Escobar, of the Medellín Cartel, says that he hopes to surrender.

June

• 19 June – The Medellín Cartel's Pablo Escobar surrenders to authorities in Medellín and is flown to jail.
• 20 June – Financial chief of the Medellín Cartel, Valentin Jesus Taborda, surrenders.

July

• 4 July – The 1991 Colombian Constitution is promulgated. This results in the establishment of the:
• * Amazonas department
• * Putumayo department
• * Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina
• * current Senate
• * Ministry of Foreign Trade
• * Constitutional Court
• * Attorney General position and its Office
• 11 July – Solar eclipse of July 11, 1991

August

• 2–18 August – Colombia at the 1991 Pan American Games

September

• Miguel Maza Márquez is dismissed by President Gaviria from his position as Police General of the Administrative Department of Security.

October

• 27 October – 1991 Colombian parliamentary election.

November

• 5 November – The 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Police occurs, commemorations are held.
• 19 November – 1991 Chocó earthquake.

December

• 10 December – Alirio Pedraza, an attorney who investigated human rights abuses and had disappeared the year prior, is honored by Human Rights Watch “to commend dedication to justice and to highlight plight” as apart from their annual selection of human rights advocates.

Uncertain

• The first TVyNovelas Awards Colombia are held.

Births

• 10 September – Andrés Mosquera, footballer.
• 27 November – Andrés Calle, politician.

Deaths

• 5 February – José Manuel Rivas Sacconi, politician, former minister of foreign affairs.
• 22-23 February – Rosalba Camacho, Colombian Communist Party member.
• 30 April – Enrique Low Murtra, former Justice Minister.