2013 in Colombia

Incumbents

• President: Juan Manuel Santos
• Vice President: Angelino Garzón

  Events

January

• January 1 - 13 FARC members are killed in an airstrike by the Colombian military.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

  February

• February 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes southwest Colombia causing major disruption to the region and injuring at least 8 people.
• February 25 - Coffee growers of the country start a labour strike protesting the situations in which coffee growing is practiced.

  March

• March 8 - 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.

  June

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

  July

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

  August

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

  October

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

  November

• November 9 - A gunman kills eight people in a bar in Cali.

  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.
• December 14 - A mass protest is held in Bogotá in protest against the unseating of Mayor Gustavo Petro.