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A Piper PA-31 crashes into a residential area in the Belén Rosales, Medellín, Colombia, killing the eight people on board.
2022-11-21

At least nine people are killed and about 30 others are missing after their multi-story tourist boat, carrying about 170 people, sinks in a reservoir in northwest Colombia near Medellín.
2017-06-25

The BBC reports that leaked audio recordings of air traffic tower tapes indicate that the LaMia Airlines flight was running out of fuel near the Colombian city of Medellin.
2016-11-30

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

Emergency workers have recovered the final bodies from a collapsed gold mine in Colombia with 15 people recovered. [http:--www.france24.com-en-20150526-last-bodies-recovered-after-colombia-mine-tragedy-killed-15?ns_campaign=reseaux_sociaux&ns_source=twitter&ns_mchannel=social&ns_linkname=editorial&aef_campaign (France 24)]date=August 2019
2015-05-25

Former Colombian crime boss Griselda Blanco is killed by hitmen in Medellín.
2012-09-3

Voters in Colombia go to the polls for local gubernatorial and mayoral elections, including the mayors of Bogotá, Medellín, and Cali.
2011-10-30

Venezuela's Hugo Chávez promises that his foreign minister will attend the inauguration of Juan Manuel Santos as Colombian president, two weeks after direct relations between the two countries were broken off, thanks to mediation efforts by President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
2010-08-6

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

Constitutional judges in Colombia reject a referendum to allow President Álvaro Uribe to stand for a third term in office.
2010-02-27