Sources: CNN
At least 66 people are killed when a military Lockheed C-130, carrying 125 people, crashes in Puerto Leguízamo, Colombia. 2026-03-23
Colombian senator Aida Quilcué and her two bodyguards are abducted from their car by unidentified assailants while traveling in Cauca Department. Security forces later locate the empty car, and Quilcué and her escorts are released unharmed following government warnings. 2026-02-10
Colombia suspends electricity exports to Ecuador and announces a 30% tariff on selected Ecuadorian goods to reciprocate Ecuador's imposition of the same surcharge on Colombian imports effective February 1, which Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa attributed to a trade deficit and a lack of cooperation on combating drug trafficking. 2026-01-22
Clashes between the revolutionary far-left armed groups ELN and FARC dissidents in Arauca Department leave 23 people dead near Colombia’s border with Venezuela. 2022-01-3
Colombia's House of Representatives abruptly ends its session and asks lawmakers to quarantine after a member tested positive for COVID-19. 2020-11-5
In Popayán, Colombia, members of the Misak indigenous community topple and decapitate a monument dedicated to Spanish conquistador Sebastián de Belalcázar. 2020-09-16
A mudslide in the central Colombian town of Marquetalia results in at least twelve deaths. 2018-10-11
Colombian military forces raid a FARC rebel hideout in the province of Caquetá, freeing police sergeant Luis Alberto Erazu, who had been held hostage by FARC for 12 years. Four other hostages are killed by the rebels during the raid. 2011-11-26
The FARC organisation releases the first of five hostages promised this week as a gesture of peace to the government in Colombia. 2011-02-10
Colombia takes Venezuela to the Organisation of American States over claims that the latter tolerates training camps for left-wing guerrillas, particularly FARC and ELN within its borders. 2010-07-18