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A Colombian court in Bogota grants conditional release to former paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso. He was held at La Picota prison while being accused of war crimes and human rights violations.
2024-05-10

A concert organized by the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra involving 16,000 musicians and choirs at the Simón Bolívar Park in Bogotá, Colombia, commemorating the progress in the country's peace process, sets a world record for the largest concert ever performed.
2022-08-28

Over 500 Venezuelan migrants block a major toll road in northern Bogotá, Colombia, demanding they be allowed to return home after the coronavirus pandemic caused economic opportunities to dry up.
2020-04-29

Riots break out at several prisons in Colombia over COVID-19 fears. Residents report explosions and gunfire inside La Modelo prison in the capital Bogotá. Inmates release a statement demanding the government allow vulnerable prisoners to be granted house arrest.
2020-03-22

An explosion kills one and injures at least 30 people, mostly police officers preparing for the weekly anti-bullfighting protests in Bogotá, Colombia. Bullfighting resumed last month after a four-year lull, per a Supreme Court order. Responsibility has not been determined.
2017-02-19

An Aerosucre Boeing 727-200 Flight 4544, used as a cargo plane, crashes shortly after takeoff in Puerto Carreno's Germán Olano Airport en route to the Colombian capital Bogota killing five people and injuring one.
2016-12-20

At least four people are killed and a dozen injured after a small plane crashes in a residential area of the Colombian capital Bogota.
2015-10-18

Gustavo Petro, mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, is removed from office and banned from re-taking it for fifteen years, due to a failing city cleaning policy promoted by him.
2013-12-9

200,000 people protest in Bogotá, Colombia, against government cuts in public education.
2011-11-14

President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos declares a state of emergency in Colombia after ongoing floods and landslides kill at least 136 people and the flooding spreads to the capital, Bogotá.
2010-11-18