2013 in Colombia

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The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.

Events

January

• January 1 - 13 FARC members 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 of Honduras.^[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

• February 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.^[5][6]

June

• June 10 - The Venezuelan government arrests nine Colombian right-wing paramilitaries over a plot to assassinate President Nicolás Maduro.^[7]

July

• July 20 - 17 government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.^[8]
• July 22 - The presidents of Colombia and Venezuela meet to resolve a high-level diplomatic dispute.^[9]

August

• August 19 - An agrarian strike is planned for today in Colombia to demand labor rights.^[10]

October

• October 12 - A building collapses in Colombia, killing 1, with 10 still missing.^[11]

November

• November 9 - A gunman kills eight people in a bar in Cali.^[12]

December

• December 9 - 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.^[13]
• December 14 - A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.^[14]

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