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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]

References

↑ "Thirteen Colombian Farc rebels 'killed in air strike'". BBC News. 1 January 2013. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "Colombian drug kingpins nabbed in Honduras and Panama". Fox News Latino. 19 January 2013. Archived from the original on 8 November 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "Colombia says FARC rebels hit two oil pipelines, coal rail line". Reuters. 22 January 2013. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "Colombia says FARC rebels hit two oil pipelines, coal rail line". 22 January 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ Mach, Andrew (9 February 2013). "Strong 6.9 earthquake strikes Colombia; minor injuries reported". NBC News. Archived from the original on 12 February 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "258 viviendas averiadas y ocho heridos deja sismo en todo el país" [258 homes damaged and eight wounded nationwide in earthquake]. El Tiempo (Colombia) (in Spanish). 9 February 2013. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
↑ "Venezuela arrests Colombians over Maduro assassination plot". 10 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ "Colombian soldiers die in clashes". 21 June 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ "Venezuelan, Colombian presidents put aside diplomatic dispute". 23 July 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ "Farmers on strike in Colombia demanding labor rights". 19 August 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ "Building collapse in Colombia kills 1; 10 still missing". 14 October 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ "Gunman kills eight in bar in Cali, Colombia". 9 November 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ "Bogota Mayor Ordered Removed From Office". 9 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
↑ "Thousands march for sacked Bogota Mayor Gustavo Petro". 14 December 2013. Retrieved 14 January 2015.

Years in Colombia (since 1810)

19th century	1810 1880 1890

20th century	1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

21st century	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019

2013 in South America

Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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