The following lists events that happened in 2013 in Colombia.
Incumbents President: Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018) Vice President: Angelino Garzón (2010-2014)
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
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