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Colombia reports its first confirmed case of monkeypox in a man who travelled from Spain.
2022-06-5

Colombia reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant in an international traveller who arrived in Cali from the United States.
2021-07-24

Two Venezuelan Army troops are killed and nine others are wounded by a land mine, near the border with Colombia, during operations against FARC dissidents and other "irregular armed groups".
2021-04-1

Colombian Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo permits a U.S. Army unit to resume its advisory mission in the country after the Colombian Senate found that it did not constitute a deployment of foreign troops. A court had suspended the mission in early July after the opposition argued it did count as foreign troop movement, and thus needed Senate authorization.
2020-08-27

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro blames an alleged assassination attempt on Colombia and Venezuelan exiles in the U.S. state of Florida.
2018-08-4

A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 81 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia. Rescuers report at least six survivors have been found in the wreckage. The 2016 Copa Sudamericana Finals are suspended.
2016-11-29

Voters in Colombia go to the polls for a presidential election, pitting incumbent Juan Manuel Santos against Óscar Iván Zuluaga. Santos is reelected with 51% of the vote.
2014-06-15

Alfonso Cano, the head of the Colombian militant organisation FARC, is reportedly killed in a raid by the Colombian Army.
2011-11-4

At least 20 people are buried by a landslide in the northern Colombian department of Santander.
2010-12-23

Three Colombian police officers were killed Monday during a suspected guerrilla attack near the Venezuelan border.
2010-09-14