Sources: CNN
Colombian police arrest José Vitonco, an alleged guerrilla leader linked to FARC dissident leader Iván Mordisco, in connection with a deadly highway bombing in Cauca Department. 2026-04-28
A specialized court in Antioquia, Colombia, sentences seven former Chiquita executives to 135 months in prison and fines them COP$13.876 billion (US$3.4 million) for financing the now-defunct AUC paramilitary group. 2025-07-23
Colombian president Gustavo Petro, Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa release a joint statement announcing they will close their ports to any ship carrying weapons supplied to Israel. 2025-02-28
The Human Rights Watch breaks a report on violence around the Colombia—Venezuela border since the Colombian peace process, announcing that there has been an ongoing War in the Catatumbo region del Catatumbo since early 2018. 2019-08-8
Venezuelan interim President Juan Guaidó arrives at the Venezuela Aid Live concert in Cúcuta, Colombia, defying a travel ban placed on him by the Maduro regime. 2019-02-22
A suicide car-bomb attack at the General Santander National Police Academy in Bogotá, Colombia, kills at least 20 people and injures more than 50 others. 2019-01-17
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
Floods across South America: Panama experiences its heaviest ever rains, with the Panama Canal shut for the first time due to weather. Millions of people are affected across the region, and there are deaths, including in Colombia and Venezuela. 2010-12-9
Venezuela and Colombia re-establish diplomatic relations after a meeting between recently inaugurated President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in Santa Marta, Colombia, mediated by UNASUR Secretary General Néstor Kirchner. 2010-08-11
Colombia's former Minister of National Defence, Juan Manuel Santos, wins the first round of the country's presidential election, but without the majority needed to avoid a June run-off with rival Antanas Mockus 2010-05-31